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 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).
Filmography
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Movies 103
Writer 37
TV Shows 1
Screenplay 1

Kinder der Sonne (2023)

The Lower Depths (2022)

The Cure (2021)

Boles (2013)

Ilaingan (2011)

Nachtasyl (2005)

The Philistines (2004)

Summerfolk (1995)

Mother (1990)

Barbaron (1989)

Eccentrics (1989)

Without Sun (1987)

Children of the Sun (1985)

Malva (1984)

Maa (1984)

Vassa (1983)

Sommergäste (1981)

Vassa Železnovová (1980)

Falošný peniaz (1980)

Enemies (1978)

The Orlovs (1978)

Meštiaci (1978)

Feinde (1976)

Nachtasyl (1974)

Enemies (1974)

Matka (1974)

Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)

A Man Before His Time (1973)

The Lower Depths (1972)

Solens børn (1972)

Die Mutter (1971)

Vassa Železnovová (1970)

Jegor Bulyčov (1970)

Bývalí ľudia (1970)

Menschen (1970)

Shake-Up (1970)

Threesome (1970)

Forest (1969)

Across Rus' (1968)

Jegor Bulyčov (1968)

Li-ittle! (1968)

Der Alte (1967)

Die Letzten (1967)

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla (1967)

Onde a Terra Começa (1966)

Appassionata (1963)

Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí (1962)

Měšťáci (1962)

Nachtasyl (1959)

Měšťáci (1958)

The Lower Depths (1957)

Mother (1956)

Children of the Sun (1956)

Malva (1956)

Foes (1953)

Мать (1941)

Enemies (1938)

Cain and Artem (1930)

Mother (1926)

The Madness of the Valiants (1926)

Souls on the Road (1921)

Mother (1920)

Kinder der Sonne
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1868-03-28
Deathday1936-06-18 (68 years old)
Birth PlaceNizhny Novgorod, Russia
Religionatheism
ChildrenMaxim Peshkov
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
ResidencesMoscow · Nizhny Novgorod · Saint Petersburg, Russia, Sorrento · Capri, Italy
Also Known AsMaxime Gorki, Maximo Gorki, Alexis Pechkov, Alekseï Pechkov, Алексей Пешков, М. Горький, М.Горький
AwardsGriboyedov Prize, Order of Lenin
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