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Maxim Gorky
Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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 N…
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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).
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2026
National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
Movie Theatre Play
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2024
The devil's love
Movie Idea
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2023
Kinder der Sonne
Movie Theatre Play
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2022
The Lower Depths
Movie Original Story
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2021
The Cure
Movie Novel
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2016
Legends of Cinema
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2016
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2015
Kinder der Sonne
Movie Theatre Play
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2014
The Lower Depths
Movie Theatre Play
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2013
Boles
Movie Story
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2012
The Last Ones
Movie Author
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2011
Ilaingan
Movie Novel
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2007
The Philistines
Movie Original Story
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2004
Stormy Petrel
Movie Story
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2000
Eccentrics
Movie Author
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1995
Summerfolk
Movie Author
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1991
Poslední
Movie Theatre Play
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1990
Mother
Movie Novel
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1989
Eccentrics
Movie Author
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1988
The Life of Klim Samgin
TV show Novel
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1987
Without Sun
Movie Novel
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1987
The Zykovs
Movie Author
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1986
Life of Klim Samgin
Movie Novel
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1985
Children of the Sun
Movie Theatre Play
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1985
Children of the Sun
TV show Theatre Play
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1984
Malva
Movie Original Story
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1984
Maa
Movie Original Story
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1983
Vassa
Movie Theatre Play
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1983
The Petty Bourgeois
Movie Novel
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1981
The Zykovs
Movie Author
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1980
Vassa Železnovová
Movie Theatre Play
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1980
Falošný peniaz
Movie Theatre Play
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1978
Enemies
Movie Theatre Play
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1978
Vassa Zheleznova
Movie Author
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1978
The Orlovs
Movie Short Story
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1978
Meštiaci
Movie Theatre Play
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1978
The Lower Depths
Movie Theatre Play
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1976
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
Movie Novel
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1976
Dostigayev and Others
Movie Author
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1976
Summer Guests
Movie Theatre Play
