Maxim Gorky

Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian ??????? ?????????? ??????) (March 28; March 16 Old Style, 1868–June 14, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (?????? ???????), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod and died in Moscow. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.

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