See also:

• MAXIM, SIR HIRAM STEVENS (184o- )

MAXIM See also:

• MAXIM GORKI (1868– )

GORKI (1868– )  , the See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen-name of the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian novelist Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov, who was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Nizhni-See also:

• NOVGOROD
• NOVGOROD (formerly known as V elikiy-Novgorod, Great Novgorod)

Novgorod on the 26th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1868 . His See also:

• FATHER

father was a See also:

• DYER, JOHN (c. 1700-1758)
• DYER, SIR EDWARD (d. 1607)
• DYER, THOMAS HENRY (1804-1888)

dyer, but he lost both his parents in childhood, and in his ninth See also:

• YEAR

year was sent to assist in a See also:

• BOOT

boot-See also:

• SHOP

shop . We find him afterwards in a variety of callings, but devouring books of all sorts greedily, whenever they See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into his hands . He ran away from the boot-shop and went to help a See also:

• LAND

land-surveyor . He was then a See also:

• COOK
• COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853– )
• COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (1829–1883)
• COOK, ELIZA (1818–1889)
• COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
• COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892)

cook on See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board a steamer and afterwards a gardener . In his fifteenth year he tried to enter a school at Kazan, but was obliged to betake himself again to his drudgery . He became a See also:

• BAKER, HENRY (1698-1774)
• BAKER, SIR BENJAMIN (1840-1907)
• BAKER, SIR RICHARD (1568-1644/5)
• BAKER, SIR SAMUEL WHITE (1821-1893)
• BAKER, THOMAS (1656-1740)
• BAKER, VALENTINE [BAKER PASHA] (1827-1887)

baker, than hawked about kvas, and helped the barefooted tramps and labourers at the docks . From these he See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew some of his most striking pictures, and learned to give sketches of humble See also:

• LIFE

life generally with the fidelity of a See also:

• DEFOE, DANIEL (c. 1.659—1731)

Defoe . After a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long course of drudgery he had the See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune to obtain the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of secretary to a See also:

• BARRISTER

barrister at Nizhni-Novgorod . This was the turning-point of his fortunes, as he found a sympathetic See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master who helped him . He also became acquainted with the novelist Korolenko, who assisted him in his See also:

• LITERARY

literary efforts . His first See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story was Makar Chudra, which was published in the See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal Kavkaz .

He contributed to many See also:

• PERIODICALS

periodicals and finally attracted See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention by his See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale called Chelkash, which appeared in Russkoe Bogatsvo (" Russian See also:

• WEALTH

wealth ") . This was followed by a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of tales in which he drew with extraordinary vigour the life of the bosniaki, or tramps . He has sometimes described other classes of society, tradesmen and the educated classes, but not with equal success . There are some vigorous pictures, however, of the trading class in his Foma Gordeyev . But his favourite type is the See also:

• REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel, the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man in revolt against society, and him he describes from See also:

• PERSONAL

personal knowledge, and enlists our sympathies with him . We get such a type completely in Konovalov . See also:

• GORKI, MAXIM (1868– )

Gorki is always See also:

• PREACHING (Fr. preecher, from Lat. praedicare, to proclaim)

preaching that we must have ideals—something better than everyday life, and this view is brought out in his See also:

• PLAY

play At the Lowest Depths, which had See also:

• GREAT

great success at See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, but was coldly received at St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg . For a good See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of Gorki see Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature, by See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• KROPOTKIN, PETER ALEXEIVICH, PRINCE (1842- )

Kropotkin . Many of his See also:

• WORKS

works have been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English .