Maxim Gorky

(Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov) was born in Russia. Gorky`s collection of short stories Sketches and Stories (1898), puplished by a radical pres.Foma Gordeyev (1899) was his first published novel. Russian outhor consideried the father of soviet revolutionary litarature and faunder of the dockrine of socialist reailsm wrote The Mather (1906).In 1914 he returned Russia an the first of his outobiographical novels My Childhood apeared the sama year, followed by In the World in 1916.My Universities (1922) is based on his selfeducation, universities being close to peasents suck as himself. Gorky writes of his friendship with Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov in Reminiscences.