Maxim Gorky
Aleksej Maksimovich Peshkov (
Алексей Максимович Пешков), (
March 28,
1868 -
June 17,
1936), better known as
Maxim Gorky (
Максим Горький), was a
Russian author and political activist. He was born on the in the city of
Nizhny Novgorod, and died in
Moscow. From
1906 to
1913 and from
1921 to
1931 he lived abroad; after his return to the
Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.
The town of his birth was renamed Gorky in his honour in 1932, but it reverted to its original name of Nizhny Novgorod in 1990.
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