Word: pyeshkov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, critics who knew Bunin's work thought him a better-than-average choice. Soviet sympathizers declared the award "political," wanted to know why, if the Nobel Committee had decided to honor a Russian, they had not picked Russia's No. 1 contemporary writer. Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorki...
Best-known Russians today are Dzhugashvili, Bronstein and Pyeshkov-but not by those names. Stalin, Trotsky and Maxim Gorki are the famed pseudonyms they have adopted. Least potent but most popular of the three is Gorki, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters. Long before the Revolution, when it was still in the lower depths, he hitched his wagon to the Red star; as the star rose, so rose Gorki. His birthplace, Nizhni-Novgorod (chief navigation centre on the Volga River famed for its annual fair and now the site of a state automobile plant) has been renamed...
...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...
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