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.

Selected works

• Makar Chudra (????? ?????)
• Chelkash (??????)
• Malva
• Creatures That Once Were Men
• Twenty-six Men and a Girl
• Foma Gordeyev (???? ???????)
• Three of Them (????)
• A Confession (????????)
• Okurov City (??????? ??????)
• The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin (????? ?????? ??????????)
• Children of the Sun (???? ??????), 1905
• Mother (????), 1907
• The Lower Depths (?? ???)
• Childhood (???????), 1913–1914
• In the World (? ?????), 1916
• Song of a Storm petrel (????? ? ????????????)
• Song of a Falcon (????? ? ??????)
• My Universities (??? ????????????), 1923
• The Artamonov Business (???? ???????????)
• Life of Klim Samgin (????? ????? ???????)
• Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreyev