Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov, better known as Maksim Gorki, was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on March 28, 1868, and was one of the most influential writers in the Red October Revolution.
He had a childhood of hard work, which later led him to change his status within society, going from being an employee of a painter to an employee of a railway company. All this accumulated experience was later one of the greatest inspiration factors in the professional life of the writer.
One of the many jobs he had in his youth was as a lawyer intern, where he discovered his passion for culture and literature, which is why he began to read more and more daily, making it a sport in his life.
Another crucial factor for his affection for culture was, without a doubt, the influence of his maternal grandmother, who raised him after the death of his father. She told him various stories, both in verse and prose, which possessed a degree of expressive exaggeration that made the boy very interested in the stories she told him.
When the writer turned 30, he was already respected by several intellectuals of the time for his work, which in a short time had grown surprisingly. His most outstanding creations had been his stories that had managed to reach various countries throughout Europe.
Knowing the public’s liking for his work, he began to make different theatrical productions, which positioned Gorky as one of the great Russian artists of the time. These works were staged at the beginning of the 20th century, initially in the Moscow Arts Theater, and later toured theaters across the continent. In the field of drama, he managed to innovate in his creations by giving all the characters the same importance, writing several parallel stories that were intertwined in the outcome of the play. His most recognized theatrical productions were “Petty bourgeois” Y “The underworld“.
On a trip to Saint Petersburg, he resumed his socialist ideas, due to his relationship with several Marxist politicians who lived in the second most important city in Russia, and the social problems that existed at that time, which reminded him of the dark stage of his childhood. . Due to his social commitment and his strong criticism of the system in his writings, it did not take long for censorship to arrive, which several times forced him into exile.
Despite being an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of SciencesIn 1902, he was dismissed for his ideologies and political companies, which, a time later, took him to jail.
In 1907, due to serious health problems, he moved to Italy, where he created a revolutionary emigration center, where several politically persecuted could take refuge.
Once the Bolsheviks removed the government of the Tsars, Maksim Gorki He returned to Russia, where he participated in the cultural sphere for 4 years, until he was deported again, which forced him to live for 2 years in Germany.
In 1928, he returned to his native country hand in hand with Stalin, who named it “President of the Soviet Writers’ Union“.
In his rich work, you can find several classics of Western literature, such as: “Makár Tchudrá“,”The old Izerguíl“,”Varen’ka Olésova“,”The hawk’s song“,”The underworld“,”The son of the sun“,”Mother“,”The life of a man unnecessary“,”The life of Matvéi Kozhemiákin“,”For Russia“,”The house of the Artamonov” Y “Forty years. The life of Klim Sanghin“, among others.
After contracting fulminant pneumonia, the writer died in a country house in Lenin, on the outskirts of Moscow, on June 18, 1936.