What is Maxim Gorky?
{{Infobox writer | image = Maxim Gorky LOC Restored edit1.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Portrait of Gorky, c. 1906 | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|28 March|1868|March 16}} | birth_place = [[Nizhny Novgorod]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{death date|df=yes|1936|6|18}} (aged 68) | death_place = [[Gorki Leninskiye]], Moscow Oblast, [[Russian SFSR]], [[USSR]] | signature = MaximGorkySignature.svg }} '''Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov''' (In [[Russian language|Russian]] Алексей Максимович Пешков) (Old style: 16 March 1868, New style: 28 March – 18 June 1936), better known as '''Maxim Gorky''' (Максим Горький), was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]/[[Russia]]n author, a founder of the [[socialist realism]] literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in [[Capri]], [[Italy]]; 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 == * The Lower Depths (На дне), 1902 * Children of the Sun (Дети солнца), 1905 == Gallery == <gallery> Image:Maxim Gorky authographed portrait.jpg|A portrait Image:Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky, 1931.jpg|Maxim Gorky and [[Joseph Stalin]], [[1931]] Image:MaksimGorky.jpg|A [[postage stamp]] from [[1946]] (from the [[Soviet Union]] Image:The Soviet Union 1968 CPA 3615 stamp (Maxim Gorky (after Valentin Serov, 1905)).jpg|Another Soviet postage stamp from 1968 Image:Path to happiness is work (Gorky).jpg |Path to [[happiness]] is work, by Maxim Gorky </gallery> == Other websites == {{commons}} * {{gutenberg author|id=Maxim_Gorky|name=Maxim Gorky}} * {{imdb name|id=0331003|name=Maxim Gorky}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorky, Maxim}} [[Category:1868 births]] [[Category:1936 deaths]] [[Category:Russian writers]] [[Category:People from Nizhny Novgorod]] {{bio-stub}}