When Maxim Gorky’s “The Lower Depths,” about the daily lives of a dozen-odd destitute Russians living in shared squalor, premiered at Moscow Art Theatre in 1902, the play shocked audiences who were ...
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Максим Горький), was a Russian writer and political activist. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in ...