Word: alexey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually "Antosha Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily, read some of Chekhov's stories, was impressed, sent for him. Chekhov described their first interview: "He was very courteous and even shook hands with me. 'Do your best, young man,' he said...
Died. Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 68, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters; of tuberculosis and grippe; in his villa near Moscow. Turned out of his grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post...
...countrymen but beats no rival drum. Quietly certain that Russia is on the down grade, he says: "I know for sure that I grew up in the epoch of the greatest Russian might, and of the full consciousness of it." Born the third son of impoverished country gentry, "Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev" grew up in central Russia in an atmosphere of shabby nobility and melancholy decay. His father was an attractive spendthrift who lived on memories of the Crimean War, magniloquent hopes for the future, present delusions of his own practical sense. Alexey had the upbringing and the schooling...
...Author. Alexey Maximovich Pyeshkov (Gorki) is 65. If he had had his own way he would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding...
...hailed by editors as a step in the breakdown of Communism. Steel Man Stalin had his propagandists out in force last week to deny this imputation. In London, chief Stalin interpreter was none other than Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin. Two years ago Bukharin, a member of the Politburo, horse-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, and Michael Tomsky called down the Steel Man's wrath as members of the "right heretics" who refused to cooperate whole heartedly in the Five-Year Plan. Last week found a chastened, subdued Nicolai Bukharin in London stroking a red beard, humbly explaining the new policies...