Gorky was active in the emerging Marxist socialist movement and later supported the Bolsheviks. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and …

Gorky was the only Soviet writer whose work embraced the prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary period so exhaustively, and, though he by no means stands with Chekhov, Tolstoy, and others in the …

Part of the Socialist Realism movement, Maxim Gorky was orphaned at the age of eleven, ran away at the age of twelve, and attempted suicide when he was nineteen and a half years old.

In 1889, Gorky attempted suicide, shooting a bullet through his lungs. The attempt, of course, failed, but Gorky's lungs were damaged permanently and led to frequent bouts with tuberculosis.

Between 1899 and 1906 Gorky lived mainly in St. Petersburg, where he became a Marxist, supporting the Social Democratic Party. After the split in that party in 1903, Gorky went with its Bolshevik wing. …

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), Russian author and political activist, founder of socialist realism Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Armenian-American abstract expressionist painter

May 16, 2024 · Arshile Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, was an influential Armenian-American painter who played a crucial role in the development of Abstract Expressionism. His works bridged …

The selection provides a concise history of Arshile Gorky’s work, from his early experiments with Post-Impressionism and Cubism to his paintings and drawings of the late 1940s.

The present installment provides the most up-to-date and authoritative documentation on over two thousand known works created by Gorky between 1924, the year the artist moved to New York, and …

Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28, 1868 – June 14, 1936) better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian author, a founder of the …