Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist socialist movement and later supported the Bolsheviks. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir …

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) was a Russian writer who wrote stories, novels, and plays. After his death he was canonized as the patron saint of Soviet letters.

Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian author, a …

His chosen pseudonym "Gorky" translates directly as "bitter." Fittingly, his chosen first name, "Maxim" means "a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct."

Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived mainly in St. Petersburg, where he became a Marxist, supporting the Social Democratic Party. After the split in that party in 1903, Gorky went with its …

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter

The Arshile Gorky Foundation was established in June 2005 by the artist’s widow, Mougouch Fielding (Agnes Magruder Gorky, 1921-2013), to further the public’s appreciation and …

In 1889, Gorky attempted suicide, shooting a bullet through his lungs. The attempt, of course, failed, but Gorky's lungs were damaged permanently and led to frequent bouts with tuberculosis.

Maxim Gorky, orig. Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, (born March 28, 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died June 18, 1936, near Moscow), Russian writer. After a childhood of poverty and …

The present installment provides the most up-to-date and authoritative documentation on over two thousand known works created by Gorky between 1924, the year the artist moved to New …