Alexey Peshkov is a great Russian writer, better known by his pseudonym "Maxim Gorky". He penned stories, novellas and novels, plays and literary essays, which describe the life of his contemporaries of various strata of Russian society, the spiritual quest of heroes. The talent of Alexei Gorky is on a par with the work of Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky and other Russian writers.
Alexey Maksimovich Gorky is a great Russian writer, whose work is well known both in Russia and abroad. Only Gorky is not his true surname, but a pseudonym. Real name - Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov. The writer was born in March 1868 in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. His father was a carpenter, he died when Alyosha was still quite a child. Childhood and adolescence were rather difficult for him. Perhaps that is why, when he began to write, he took for himself such an unusual pseudonym - "bitter", as a reminder of his bitter and hard life.
Gorky's youth
The childhood and adolescence of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov was really very difficult. As mentioned above, he became an orphan early, lost his father, who was a very good man and loved his son very much. After the death of his father, the boy moved with his mother to live with his maternal grandfather. The grandfather was very tough and rude in dealing with loved ones, which also did not bring joy to childhood life. Alexey Maksimovich very early began to earn his own living on his own. He really wanted to go to study at the university. In 1884 he even specially came to Kazan to enter the local university. But he failed. This was the first and last attempt in Gorky's life to go to study. But despite the fact that he does not have a diploma of education, he could rightfully be considered an educated person. All the knowledge that he managed to get, he received thanks to an iron willpower and a great desire to learn.
Attempted suicide
There was one event in Gorky's life that the writer never liked to remember. This happened in 1887. He tried to commit suicide. Evil tongues said that he did it out of despair, from constant need and excessive fatigue. He shot himself with a revolver. The wound was not serious, the writer recovered very quickly. But as he later said himself, he did it only in order to try to experience and feel all the feelings that his character experienced.
Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov traveled a lot in his life. Almost on foot, he walked half of Russia, more than once he was abroad. During the revolutionary events in the country he took a direct part, for which he was later called the "poet of the revolution." The most famous works of Gorky are: the famous novel "Foma Gordeev", "Makar Chudra", the plays "Bourgeois", "At the Bottom", "Barbarians", "Vassa Zheleznova", "Old Woman Izergil", "Song of the Petrel", the novel " Mother”, the autobiographical trilogy“Childhood”,“In People”,“My Universities”and others.
Personal life of Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov
The writer has been married several times. In general, women have always been interested in the writer. Gorky's first wife was Ekaterina Volzhina. From their marriage, a girl was born, who died while still very young. The son's name was Maxim and in the future he became an artist, although not a professional one, but rather an amateur. He died in 1934, and there were rumors that this death was not natural, they said that he was killed. The second wife of the writer was a revolutionary and actress - Maria Andreeva. And the third is Maria Budberg, with whom he lived until the end of his life.
