Maxim Gorky

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1869-03-28 (67 years old)

Deathday

1936-06-18

Place of Birth

Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Maxim Gorky

Biography

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 Un...

Production

1963

Appassionata

as Short Story

1956

The Mother

as Novel

1962

1967

1969

Forest

as Short Story

1969

1926

Mother

as Novel

1921

Souls on the Road

as Original Story

1974

Enemies

as Writer

2021

The Cure

as Novel

1968

Jegor Bulyčov

as Theatre Play

1970

Bývalí ľudia

as Short Story

1970

Jegor Bulyčov

as Theatre Play

1970

Vassa Železnovová

as Theatre Play

2022

The Lower Depths

as Original Story

1990

Mother

as Novel

1920

Mother

as Novel

1956

Mother

as Novel

1958

Měšťáci

as Theatre Play

1956

Children of the Sun

as Screenplay

2004

The Philistines

as Original Story

1984

Malva

as Original Story

1953

Foes

as Novel

1970

Shake-Up

as Story

1971

1966

Onde a Terra Começa

as Original Story

2014

1983

Vassa

as Writer

1980

Falošný peniaz

as Theatre Play

1962

Měšťáci

as Theatre Play

1974

Matka

as Novel

1985

Children of the Sun

as Theatre Play

1968

Li-ittle!

as Original Story

2013

Boles

as Story

2023

Kinder der Sonne

as Theatre Play

1972

The Lower Depths

as Theatre Play

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Kinder der Sonne

as Adaptation

1968

1941

Мать

as Novel

1984

Maa

as Original Story

2011

Ilaingan

as Novel

1965

1980

Vassa Železnovová

as Theatre Play

2004

1967

1941

1968

Across Rus'

as Writer

1936

1989

Eccentrics

as Author

1967

1959

1926

1953

1952

1953

1987

Without Sun

as Writer

1978

Enemies

as Writer

1957

The Lower Depths

as Theatre Play

1973

1963

1995

Summerfolk

as Author

1973

A Man Before His Time

as Theatre Play

1946

1940

1978

Meštiaci

as Theatre Play

1938

Enemies

as Author

1973

1930

Cain and Artem

as Short Story

1978

1970

Threesome

as Author

1978

1976

Summer Guests

as Theatre Play

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