ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -He opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and went on to attack the victorious Lenin’s dictatorial methods in his newspaper Novaya zhizn (“New Life”) until July 1918, when his protests were silenced by censorship on Lenin’s orders.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gorky Origin and Meaning The name Gorky is boy’s name of Russian origin. Perky, quirky literary and artistic name tied to the “father of Soviet literature” Maxim and influential Armenian-American painter Arshile.