Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was born on 28 March 1868, popularly known as Maxim Gorky. He was a Russian writer and socialist political thinker and proponent.

He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he traveled widely across the Russian Empire changing jobs frequently, experiences which would later influence his writing.

Gorky’s most famous works are his early short stories, written in the 1890s (“Chelkash”, “Old Izergil”, and “Twenty-Six Men and a Girl”); plays The Philistines (1901), and many more.

He was active in the emerging Marxist communist and later in the Bolshevik movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov’s Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.