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"Aleksyei Maksimovitch Pyeshkof (pseudonym Maxim Gorky). Born at
Nijni-Novgorod, March 14, 1868. A Russian writer. He led a vagabond
life for many years, working and tramping with the poorest classes
in Russia, and his writings record the tragedy of poverty and crime
as he found it. Among the best known of his works are 'MAKAR CHUDRA'
(1890), 'EMILIAN PIBGAI,' 'CHELKASH,' 'OSHYBKA' (1895), 'TYENOVYA
KARTINKI'(1895), 'TOSKA,' 'KONOVALOV' (1896), 'MALVA' (1896), 'FOMA
GORDYEEV'(1901), 'MUJIKI' (1901). Three volumes of short stories
(1898-99), 'MIEST-CHANYE' (1902), 'COMRADES' (1907), 'THE SPY' (1908),
and 'IN THE DEPTHS,' a play". _Century Cyclopædia of Names._