Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky

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Maksim Gorky is a pseudonym of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, who was born into a poor Russian family in Nizhnii Novgorod on Volga river. Gorky lost his father at an early age, he was beaten by his stepfather and became an orphan at age 9, when his mother died. He was brought up by his grandmother, who helped his development as a storyteller.

  • When was
    Maxim Gorky born?

    Maxim Gorky was born on Saturday, March 28, 1868

  • Where was
    Maxim Gorky born?

    Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]

  • How old was
    Maxim Gorky when they died?

    Maxim Gorky was 69

  • When did Maxim Gorky die?

    Maxim Gorky died on
    Sunday, June 14, 1936


Best Quotes

  • When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
  • The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.
  • In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
  • We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
  • Every new time will give its law.
  • You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
  • When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.
  • One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
  • In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
  • Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

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