The story “Chelkash” was written by Maxim Gorky in 1894. Already in 1895, “Chelkash” was published in the magazine “Russian Wealth” and brought the author wi...

A.V. Lunacharsky’s review of the story “Confession” by M. Gorky published in the 23rd collection of “Knowledge”

“Big Love” is the beginning of the third part of the work about Okurov, conceived by M. Gorky. The story remained unfinished.

“Comrades! The work of building socialism has begun in the Union of Soviets and is growing more and more powerfully and successfully every year. In the iron ...

Maxim Gorky wrote his famous story “The Old Woman Izergil” in 1894. It included two wonderful legends: the legend of Larra and the legend of Danko. First pub...

“The play “The Bourgeois” is not just the writer’s debut in drama, but it opens a new socio-political line...” /K. S. Stanislavsky./

“Vladimir Lenin has died. Even some of his enemies honestly admit: in the person of Lenin, the world has lost a man, “who, among all the great people of his ...

“I recently had to travel a hundred miles down the Volga, and on the way back I saw starving people. They poured onto our ship from one of the piers; there w...

“The village of Krasnukha acquired a bull. It happened like this: after retiring, Krasnukha’s neighbor, General Bodryagin, a tall, skinny old man, with a sma...