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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3143

Autographs
Russia
Maxim Gorky
1900 (c.) photograph (54 x 86 mm) fixed to carte de visite; a couple of light fox marks. Published and retailed by the Russian form Vezenberg (Wesenberg) and Co. in St. Petersburg. A scarce item. Photo

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868 – 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the 'socialist realism' literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy Petrel, My Childhood, The Mother, Summerfolk and Children of the Sun. He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov

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