Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist socialist movement and later supported the Bolsheviks. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and …

Gorky was the only Soviet writer whose work embraced the prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary period so exhaustively, and, though he by no means stands with Chekhov, Tolstoy, and others in the …

Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian author, a founder of the …

His chosen pseudonym "Gorky" translates directly as "bitter." Fittingly, his chosen first name, "Maxim" means "a short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct."

Maksim Gorky is a pseudonym of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, who was born into a poor Russian family in Nizhnii Novgorod on Volga river. Gorky lost his father at an early age, he was beaten by his …

Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived mainly in St. Petersburg, where he became a Marxist, supporting the Social Democratic Party. After the split in that party in 1903, Gorky went with its Bolshevik wing. …

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and master of the modern short story. He was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his …

The Arshile Gorky Foundation was established in June 2005 by the artist’s widow, Mougouch Fielding (Agnes Magruder Gorky, 1921-2013), to further the public’s appreciation and understanding of the …

May 16, 2024 · Arshile Gorky, a seminal figure in 20th-century art, remains renowned for his contributions to Abstract Expressionism. Born in Armenia in 1904 as Vostanik Adoian, he later …