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Former name of Nizhny Novgorod from 1932 to 1990
a Russian surname, Maxim Gorky
Armenian-born American painter considered a transitional figure between surrealism and abstract expressionism. His works include The Liver Is the Cock's Comb (1944). Russian writer who supported the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and helped develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic. His works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels
{i} family name; Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), Russian novelist and dramatist; former name of Nizhniy Novgorod (city situated east of Moscow)
an industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky
Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts

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Arshile Gorky
orig. Vosdanik Adoian born April 15, 1904, Khorkom, Van, Turkish Armenia died July 21, 1948, Sherman, Conn., U.S. Armenian-born U.S. painter. In 1920 he emigrated from Turkish Armenia to the U.S. In 1925, after study at the Rhode Island School of Design, he settled in New York City, where he studied and then taught at the Grand Central School of Art (1926-31). He sought to assimilate the aesthetic visions of Paul Cézanne, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso by painting in their styles until he encountered the émigré European Surrealists; he then developed his own style of abstraction featuring biomorphic forms that suggest plants or human viscera floating over a background of melting colours. After a series of personal calamities, he hanged himself. He is the most important direct link between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Maksim Gorky
orig. Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov born March 28, 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia died June 14, 1936, Nizhny Novgorod Russian writer. After a childhood of poverty and misery (his assumed name, Gorky, means "bitter"), he became a wandering tramp. His early works offered sympathetic portrayals of the social dregs of Russia; they include the outstanding stories "Chelkash" (1895) and "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" (1899) and the successful play The Lower Depths (1902). For his revolutionary activity, he spent the years 1906-13 abroad as a political exile. His works include the autobiographical trilogy My Childhood (1913-14), In the World (1915-16), and My Universities (1923). Though initially an open critic of Vladimir Ilich Lenin and the Bolsheviks, after 1919 he cooperated with Lenin's government. He lived in Italy from 1921 to 1928. Upon his return to the U.S.S.R., he became the undisputed leader of Soviet writers. When the Union of Soviet Writers was established in 1934, he became its first president and helped establish Socialist Realism. He died suddenly while under medical treatment, possibly killed on the orders of Joseph Stalin
Maxim Gorky
{i} (1868-1936), Russian novelist and dramatist
Maxim Gorky
a Russian writer of novels and plays. He also wrote important books about other Russian writers and about his own life (1868-1936)
gorky

    Hyphenation

    Gor·ky

    Turkish pronunciation

    gôrki

    Pronunciation

    /ˈgôrkē/ /ˈɡɔːrkiː/

    Etymology

    () From Russian Горький (“Gór’kij”)
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