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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing.
Gorky's most famous works are a short story collection 'Sketches and Stories' (1899), plays 'The Philistines' (1901), 'The Lower Depths' (1902) and 'Children of the Sun' (1905), poem 'The Song of the Stormy Petrel' (1901), autobiographical trilogy 'My Childhood', 'In the World', 'My Universities' (1913–1923), and novel 'Mother' (1906). Though Gorky himself judged some of these works as failures, most are now seen as masterpieces.
Some of his less-known post-revolutionary works such as the cycles 'Fragments from My Diary' (1924) and 'Stories of 1922–1924' (1925), and novels 'The Artamonov Business' (1925) and 'The Life of Klim Samgin' (1925–1936), Gorky himself was more proud of; the latter is considered Gorky's masterpiece and sometimes being viewed by critics as a modernist work. Unlike his pre-revolutionary writings (known for their "anti-psychologism"), these differ with an ambivalent portrayal of the Russian Revolution and "unmodern interest to human psychology" (as noted by D. S. Mirsky).
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Movies 93
Writer 71
TV Shows 1
The Lower Depths (2022)
The Cure (2021)
The Lower Depths (2014)
Boles (2013)
Ilaingan (2011)
Nachtasyl (2005)
Stormy Petrel (2004)
Мещане (2004)
Kinder der Sonne (1999)
Summerfolk (1995)
Mother (1990)
Barbaron (1989)
The Life of Klim Samgin (1988)
Without Sun (1987)
Zhizn Klima Samgina (1986)
Children of the Sun (1985)
Wassa Schelesnowa (1984)
Malva (1984)
Vassa (1983)
Jegor Bulytschow und die Anderen (1982)
Sommergäste (1981)
Vassa Železnovová (1980)
Falošný peniaz (1980)
Unanswered Love (1979)
Enemies (1978)
The Orlovs (1978)
Meštiaci (1978)
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into The Blue (1976)
Feinde (1976)
Summer Guests (1976)
Nachtasyl (1974)
Enemies (1974)
Matka (1974)
Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)
A Man Before His Time (1973)
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak (1972)
The Lower Depths (1972)
Solens børn (1972)
Die Mutter (1971)
The Philistines (1971)
Vassa Železnovová (1970)
Jegor Bulyčov (1970)
Bývalí ľudia (1970)
Menschen (1970)
Встряска (1970)
Перед бурей (1969)
Die Kleinbürger (1969)
Forest (1969)
Piccoli borghesi (1968)
Across Rus' (1968)
Jegor Bulyčov (1968)
Li-ittle! (1968)
Dachniki (1967)
Der Alte (1967)
Die Letzten (1967)
Song of a Falcon (1967)
Легенда о пламенном сердце (1967)
Jegor Bulytschow und andere (1966)
Onde a Terra Começa (1966)
Appassionata (1963)
Wassa Schelesnowa (1963)
Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí (1962)
Měšťáci (1962)
Foma Gordeyev (1959)
Dostigayev and Others (1959)
Nachtasyl (1959)
Měšťáci (1958)
The Lower Depths (1957)
The Frosty Night (1957)
The Mother (1957)
Mother (1956)
Children of the Sun (1956)
Malva (1956)
La vida no vale nada (1955)
Vassa Zheleznova (1953)
The Barbarians (1953)
Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1953)
Foes (1953)
The Lower Depths (1952)
Albergue de mujeres (1946)
The Artamonov Case (1941)
My Universities (1940)
My Apprenticeship (1939)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
Enemies (1938)
The Lower Depths (1936)
Cain and Artem (1930)
An Affair of the Clasps (1929)
Mother (1926)
The Madness of the Valiants (1926)
Souls on the Road (1921)
Mother (1920)
The Life of Klim Samgin
Kinder der Sonne
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1868-03-28
Deathday1936-06-18 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceNizhny Novgorod, Russia
Religionatheism
ChildrenMaxim Peshkov
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
ResidencesMoscow · Saint Petersburg · Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Sorrento · Capri, Italy
Also Known AsМаксим Горький, Maxim Gorkij, Maxime Gorki, Maximo Gorki
AwardsGriboyedov Prize, Order of Lenin
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