Known For
Writing
Born
Mar 28, 1869
Died
Jun 18, 1936
Place of Birth
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Credits
106 titles
Maxim Gorky
Biography
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).
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
Theatre Play
The devil's love
Idea
Kinder der Sonne
Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Original Story
The Cure
Novel
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
Kinder der Sonne
Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Theatre Play
Boles
Story
The Last Ones
Author
Ilaingan
Novel
The Philistines
Original Story
Stormy Petrel
Story
Eccentrics
Author
Summerfolk
Author
Poslední
Theatre Play
Mother
Novel
Eccentrics
Author
The Life of Klim Samgin
Novel
Without Sun
Novel
The Zykovs
Author
Life of Klim Samgin
Novel
Children of the Sun
Theatre Play
Children of the Sun
Theatre Play
Malva
Original Story
Maa
Original Story
Vassa
Theatre Play
The Petty Bourgeois
Novel
The Zykovs
Author
Vassa Železnovová
Theatre Play
Falošný peniaz
Theatre Play
Enemies
Theatre Play
Vassa Zheleznova
Author
The Orlovs
Short Story
Meštiaci
Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Theatre Play
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
Novel
Dostigayev and Others
Author
Summer Guests
Theatre Play
The Counterfeit Coin
Author
Enemies
Theatre Play
Matka
Novel
The Last Ones
Novel
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
Theatre Play
A Man Before His Time
Theatre Play
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak
Theatre Play
The Lower Depths
Theatre Play
The Philistines
Story
Vassa Železnovová
Theatre Play