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- NAME: Maxim Gorky
- OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author
- BIRTH DATE: March 28, 1868
- DEATH DATE: July 18, 1936
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- PLACE OF DEATH: Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow , Russia
- Full Name: Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov
- AKA: Maxim Gorky
- AKA: Aleksey Peshkov
- AKA: Maxim Gorki
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Maxim Gorky was a Russian author who wrote about the lower depths of society. He was a critic of both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and died under mysterious circumstances.
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Writer Maxim Gorky was born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov on March 28, 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Born into poverty, his assumed name, Gorky, means "bitter." He spent time as a political exile and was initially an open critic of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Gorky later became the first president of the Union of Soviet Writers. He died suddenly while under medical treatment, possibly by the orders of Joseph Stalin, on July 18, 1936, in Gorki Leninskiye, Moscow, Russia.
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