The Artamonov Business (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxim Gorki
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: c. 1863-1917
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Historical fiction, Family literature, Political fiction
- Subjects: Factories, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Capitalism, Russia or Russian people, Factory management
- Locales: Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
Places Discussed
Dromov (droh-MOV). Russian town in which the Artamonov family establishes its business. Located on the Oka River in central Russia, not far from Nizhny Novgorod, it is based heavily upon many of the towns Gorky himself knew in his difficult youth, when he was working various menial jobs to survive while honing his literary powers. The novel begins not long after 1862, when Czar Alexander II abolished the institution of serfdom—the time when the Artamonov patriarch Ilya brings his family to Dromov, whose name means “sleepytown” in Russian.
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