Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)

Maxim Gorky

Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. 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…