Maxim Gorky
Known for: Writing
Born: March 28, 1869
Died: June 18, 1936
Place of birth: 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 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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Filmography
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National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
2026
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The devil's love
2024
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Kinder der Sonne
2023
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The Lower Depths
2022
7.0
The Cure
2021
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Legends of Cinema
2016
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Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
2016
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The Lower Depths
2014
6.0
Boles
2013
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The Last Ones
20125.2
Ilaingan
2011
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The Philistines
2007
7.0
Stormy Petrel
2004
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Eccentrics
2000
8.0
Summerfolk
1995NR
Poslední
1991
4.6
Mother
1990
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Eccentrics
1989
7.0
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988
9.0
Without Sun
1987
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The Zykovs
1987
7.0
Life of Klim Samgin
1986
5.5
Children of the Sun
1985
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Children of the Sun
1985NR
Malva
1984
9.0
Maa
1984
6.3
Vassa
1983
10.0
The Petty Bourgeois
1983
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The Zykovs
1981NR
Vassa Železnovová
1980NR
Falošný peniaz
1980
10.0
Enemies
1978
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Vassa Zheleznova
1978
6.5
The Orlovs
1978NR
Meštiaci
1978
9.0
The Lower Depths
1978
6.3
The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue
1976
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Dostigayev and Others
1976
7.3
Summer Guests
1976
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The Counterfeit Coin
1975
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Enemies
1974NR
Matka
1974
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The Last Ones
1973
4.8
Yegor Bulychyov and Others
1973
6.5
A Man Before His Time
19734.0
Uprostřed babího léta ve stepi zahoukal vlak
1972
9.0
The Lower Depths
1972
8.0
The Philistines
1971NR
Vassa Železnovová
1970NR
Jegor Bulyčov
1970NR
Bývalí ľudia
1970
10.0
Les Cent Livres des Hommes
1970
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Shake-Up
1970
1.0
Threesome
1970
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The Zykovs
1970
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Before the Storm
1969NR
Forest
1969
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Piccoli borghesi
1968
5.1
Out of Boredom
1968
7.0
Across Rus'
1968NR
Jegor Bulyčov
1968
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Li-ittle!
1968
7.0
Summer Residents
19679.0
Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla
1967
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The Legend of the Flaming Heart
1967
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Song of a Falcon
1967
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Eccentrics
1967
7.0
Onde a Terra Começa
1966
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The Philistines
1965
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The Magic Beam
1963
9.0
Appassionata
196310.0
Wassa Schelesnowa
1963NR
Jegor Bulyčov a ti druzí
1962NR
Měšťáci
1962
6.5
Foma Gordeyev
1959
10.0
Dostigayev and Others
1959NR
Měšťáci
1958
7.1
The Lower Depths
1957
6.0
The Mother
1956
4.7
Mother
1956
4.7
Malva
1956
9.0
Children of the Sun
1956
8.1
La Vida No Vale Nada
1955NR
Měšťáci
1954
7.0
Vassa Zheleznova
1953
7.0
The Barbarians
1953
4.0
Foes
1953
9.0
The Lower Depths
1952
9.0
Albergue de mujeres
19468.0
Mother
1941
7.5
The Artamonov Case
1941
5.5
My Universities
1940
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Maxim Gorky
1940
5.9
My Apprenticeship
1939
5.8
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938
3.7
Enemies
1938
7.2
The Lower Depths
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Soviets on Parade
1933
7.3
Cain and Artem
1930
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An Affair of the Clasps
1929
7.1
Mother
19267.0
The Madness of the Valiants
1926
6.3
Souls on the Road
1921
10.0
Mother
1920
6.0
Kinder der Sonne
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