Maxim Gorky
Writing
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
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movieNational Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
2026
Theatre Play
movieKinder der Sonne
2023
Theatre Play
movieThe Lower Depths
2022
Original Story
movieThe Cure
2021
Novel
movieThe Lower Depths
2014
Theatre Play
movieBoles
2013
Story
movieThe Last Ones
2012
Author
movieThe Philistines
2007
Original Story
movieEccentrics
2000
Author
movieSummerfolk
1995
Author
movieMother
1990
Novel
movieEccentrics
1989
Author
movieWithout Sun
1987
Novel
movieThe Zykovs
1987
Author
movieChildren of the Sun
1985
Theatre Play
tvChildren of the Sun
1985
Theatre Play
Malva
1984
Original Story
movieMaa
1984
Original Story
movieVassa
1983
Theatre Play
movieThe Zykovs
1981
Author
Vassa Železnovová
1980
Theatre Play
Falošný peniaz
1980
Theatre Play
movieEnemies
1978
Theatre Play
movieThe Orlovs
1978
Short Story
Meštiaci
1978
Theatre Play
movieThe Lower Depths
1978
Theatre Play
movieSummer Guests
1976
Theatre Play
movieEnemies
1974
Theatre Play
Matka
1974
Novel
movieYegor Bulychyov and Others
1973
Theatre Play
movieA Man Before His Time
1973
Theatre Play
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak
1972
Theatre Play
movieThe Lower Depths
1972
Theatre Play
Vassa Železnovová
1970
Theatre Play
Jegor Bulyčov
1970
Theatre Play
Bývalí ľudia
1970
Short Story
movieShake-Up
1970
Story
movieThreesome
1970
Author
movieThe Zykovs
1970
Author
Forest
1969
Short Story
moviePiccoli borghesi
1968
Theatre Play
movieOut of Boredom
1968
Short Story
movieAcross Rus'
1968
Short Story
Jegor Bulyčov
1968
Theatre Play
movieLi-ittle!
1968
Original Story
movieSummer Residents
1967
Theatre Play
Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla
1967
Original Story
movieSong of a Falcon
1967
Short Story
movieOnde a Terra Começa
1966
Original Story
movieThe Philistines
1965
Author
movieAppassionata
1963
Short Story
Wassa Schelesnowa
1963
Theatre Play
Měšťáci
1962
Theatre Play
movieDostigayev and Others
1959
Theatre Play
Měšťáci
1958
Theatre Play
movieThe Lower Depths
1957
Theatre Play
movieThe Mother
1956
Novel
movieMother
1956
Novel
movieMalva
1956
Short Story
movieChildren of the Sun
1956
Theatre Play
Měšťáci
1954
Theatre Play
movieVassa Zheleznova
1953
Theatre Play
movieThe Barbarians
1953
Theatre Play
movieFoes
1953
Novel
movieThe Lower Depths
1952
Theatre Play
movieEnemies
1938
Author
movieThe Lower Depths
1936
Theatre Play
movieCain and Artem
1930
Short Story
movieAn Affair of the Clasps
1929
Short Story
movieMother
1926
Novel
The Madness of the Valiants
1926
Short Story, Story
movieSouls on the Road
1921
Original Story
movieMother
1920
Novel
movieKinder der Sonne
Theatre Play
Acting5
tvLegends of Cinema
2016
Self (archive footage)
tvЗагадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Magic Beam
1963
Self (archive footage)
movieMaxim Gorky
1940
Self (archive footage)