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Maxim Gorky

1868 - 1936

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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. 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; these experiences would later influence his writing. He associated with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maxim Gorky is the 86th most popular writer (down from 78th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 24th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Writer.

Gorky was a Russian author who is most famous for the maxim "Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

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Among writers, Maxim Gorky ranks 86 out of 7,302. Before him are Lord Byron, Nikolai Gogol, D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Abu Nuwas, and Kālidāsa. After him are Du Fu, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, Kurt Vonnegut, and Giorgio Vasari.

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Among people born in 1868, Maxim Gorky ranks 2. Before him is Nicholas II of Russia. After him are Robert Falcon Scott, Karl Landsteiner, Miklós Horthy, Fritz Haber, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, John Nance Garner, Abdulmejid II, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Constantine I of Greece. Among people deceased in 1936, Maxim Gorky ranks 3. Before him are George V, and Ivan Pavlov. After him are Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, Lu Xun, Róbert Bárány, Grazia Deledda, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Luigi Pirandello, Lev Kamenev, and Oswald Spengler.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Maxim Gorky ranks 23 out of 3,761. Before him are Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ayn Rand (1905), and Ivan Pavlov (1849). After him are Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), and Isaac Asimov (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Maxim Gorky ranks 6. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Ayn Rand (1905). After him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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