WRITER

Maxim Gorky

1868 - 1936

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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maxim Gorky has received more than 2,633,087 page views. His biography is available in 109 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Maxim Gorky is the 78th most popular writer (up from 89th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Russia (up from 31st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Writer.

Gorky was a Russian author who is most famous for the maxim "Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 109

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh
1949
Detstvo
Childhood and youth, Social life and customs, Biography
1915
Mother
Revolutionaries in fiction, Fiction, Political fiction
1907
Creatures That Once Were Men
Short stories
The Boni and Liveright edition of 1918 introduced by G.K. Chesterton and translated by J.M. Shirazi contains five stories - 'Creatures that once were men', 'Twenty-six men and a Girl', 'Chelkash', 'My Fellow Traveller', and 'On a Raft'.
1905
Na dne
1912
Delo Artamonovykh
Russia in fiction, Social life and customs, Fiction
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maxim Gorky ranks 78 out of 7,302. Before him are Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, Jorge Luis Borges, Václav Havel, and Arthur Rimbaud. After him are Rainer Maria Rilke, Hesiod, Henrik Ibsen, François Rabelais, Miyamoto Musashi, and Isaac Asimov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Maxim Gorky ranks 2. Before him is Nicholas II of Russia. After him are Fritz Haber, Miklós Horthy, Abdulmejid II, Karl Landsteiner, Constantine I of Greece, Robert Andrews Millikan, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Emanuel Lasker, and Gichin Funakoshi. Among people deceased in 1936, Maxim Gorky ranks 2. Before him is Ivan Pavlov. After him are Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, George V, Luigi Pirandello, Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, and Ferdinand Tönnies.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Maxim Gorky ranks 24 out of 3,761. Before him are Kim Jong-il (1941), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Ayn Rand (1905), Alexander I of Russia (1777), and Lev Yashin (1929). After him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Yuri Andropov (1914).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Maxim Gorky ranks 6. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Ayn Rand (1905). After him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818).

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