Maxim Gorky (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov was born on March 28, 1868, in Nizhni Novgorod, a city which once expelled him but which Stalin later renamed Gorki in honor of its most famous son. Gorky’s father, an upholsterer, died of cholera when Gorky was only four, and his mother took him with her to live with her parents, the Kashirins. From his earliest days, young Gorky suffered the harshest and most brutal experiences. The Kashirins were cantankerous, depraved, and mercenary. His life with them was a miserable nightmare. Except for his grandmother, the household radiated...
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