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Maxim Gorky

Died in 1936

Maxim Gorky is the pen name of Alexei Peshkov (1868-1936), born in Nizhny Novgorod. Raised by his grandparents, he left school at about twelve and lived by odd jobs. He signed Gorky, “the bitter one”, from 1892, and a collection of stories published in 1898, devoted to the outcasts, made him famous. He lived for several years in exile on Capri. Having returned for good to the Soviet Union in 1932, he died in Moscow on 18 June 1936, in circumstances still debated.

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