In 1869, on March 14, a writer was born in Nizhny Novgorod whose pseudonym is Maxim Gorky. His real name is Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov.
M. Gorky: biography, a brief history of the life of an interesting person
He lost his parents very early, so he spent all his childhood and youth with his grandfather Kashirin Vasily. His grandfather died when Alex was 19 years old, after which the future writer went on a trip to Russia, wanting to find ideas for creating interesting stories.
The youth of the writer
The biography of M. Gorky, like life, is very complicated. After all, having entered the school, after 2 years he was forced to drop out of school. This is due to the death of my mother and the complete ruin of my grandfather. After that, the future writer had to become a shoemaker, work in a drawing workshop and study icon painting. In subsequent years, all attempts to resume studies were failed. Continuous failures in life almost led to the fact that he almost committed suicide. The biography of M. Gorky in his youth speaks of the severity and intolerance of being. Over the years, he has seen a lot and worked in completely different fields of activity.
During the years of wandering and wandering, he managed to get acquainted with the writer V. Korolenko, who helped to improve the work of M. Gorky. Alexey’s first story appeared in the Kavkaz newspaper, it was called Makar Chudra. So at 24, the writer became known to people under the pseudonym Maxim Gorky.
The role of V. Korolenko in the life of a writer
Since 1892, the biography of M. Gorky began to take shape much more successfully. Since that time, V. Korolenko became his main assistant and mentor. He helped in the publication of subsequent stories of Maxim. It was Vladimir Galaktionovich who gave him recommendations and talked about the writer in various publishing houses. From 1893 to 1895, more than seven Gorky stories were published. All of them were first published in the Volga press.
After the publication of the stories, the biography of M. Gorky received a new development: he entered a permanent job at Samara Newspaper, where he was published daily in the rubric “By the way”. That's just he signed by the pseudonym Yehudiel Chlamyd. The first book (Essays and Stories), which was written in two volumes, saw the light when Maxim was already 30 years old. And critics liked it very much, so Gorky began to write the novel "Thomas Gordeev." At that time he became a recognizable writer: now he was recognized as one of the best and famous authors of that time.
Then Gorky went into drama and wrote the two most famous plays - "Petty Bourgeois" and "At the Bottom", which received unusually great success, but at the same time caused a speech by the anti-government audience. Gorky was arrested and detained more than once, he was also one of the most active participants in the revolutionary movement. In 1905, the writer was imprisoned for six months for calling on the people to overthrow the government. But he was released due to public pressure. One of the most “scandalous” works of Gorky is the novel “Mother”, which was written in 1906, at the very height of the revolution.
After publishing the story, Maxim lived in Europe for seven years. Then, in 1913, he returned to Russia and wrote many more interesting works. After the revolution, his career went uphill. From 1934 to 1936, Maxim Gorky headed the Union of Writers of the Soviet Union. The writer died at 68, having lived a rather eventful and interesting life.