Talk:Maxim Gorky

Citations needed
There were several quotes and statements that had been flagged as "citation required" for over one year - sufficient time for genuine support to have been supplied. If any references turn up, feel free to restore the material. I would be interested to find support for the notion that Gorky was supplied with a censored copy of Pravda that had no mention of purges. I Googled this myself and only found circular references back to this article.

There were still several  templates in the later paragraphs, but these are newer and should probably still remain in place to allow other editors to supply support.

--CaritasUbi (talk) 02:26, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Soviet Jews
I think I read somewhere that at some point in World War II, the Nazis claimed that several Soviet political activists and cultural elites (such as Gorky) were secretly Jewish. His early pseudonym Jehudiel Khlamida certainly sounds a bit Jewish, but this does not necessarily prove that he had some sort of link to the local Jewish community. ADM (talk) 01:20, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I cannot claim that Gorky had Jewish ancestry or that he had special connections with the Jewish community, but i can quote one of his speeches that indicates some Jewish simpathy, although i don't know to which propose or intention he attributed to it - Catholicism attack, maybe? - "Religion and science they employ as instruments for holding you in servitude; they have invented Nationalism and Anti-semitism, venom with which they would poison your faith in the brotherhood of all men; (...) The plot was afterwards exposed in the press by one of the conspirators. The results of this plot were the brutal attacks on these great sufferers, the Jews, on the revolutionary intellectuals, and on the working men."--Wcris (talk) 01:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Gorky was not Jewish. His autobiographies, "My Childhood" and "My Apprenticeship" relate his upbringing in detail. His grandparents raised him and they both were Russian Orthodox. His grandmother had many pagan beliefs such as house sprites, hobgoblins and venerating Mary as sort of a goddess (this is pretty clear in "My Apprenticeship", in a conversation he has with her). In addition, Gorky writes of spending time in church just to get away from his violent home, and later worked in an icon shop. However, Gorky did seem to sympathize with Jewish people in his community. He said as a child he did not "let their goats loose" as other children did and he speaks fondly of Goldberg the pharmacist who told him who Atilla the Hun was (in a pretty amusing anecdote)and with whom Gorky discussed books. Gorky seemed to have a deep sympathy for the underdog and for those who suffered in general and this very naturally was probably also extended to Jewish people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 (talk) 22:56, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Date of death?
Some pages says that Gorky died on the 14th of June, others say that he died on the 18th. How can you be sure which is correct?


 * This question was first raised @ Talk:Maxim Gorky/Archive 1.
 * The link to the talk archives was lost in Ezhiki’s edit of 8 April 2009 which removed the talk header. I have just now restored the header and link to Archive 1.
 * I also raised this issue @ Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 11, with a satisfactory response. He went into a fever on 17 June, and died on 18 June. --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   23:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

New WikiProject: Russian literature
Hello,

See WikiProject Council/Proposals/Russian literature. Yann (talk) 03:48, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Personal life
I found somehow surprising that there is so little about his personal life. Was he married? How many times? How many children?... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.169.212.79 (talk) 07:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

First meeting with Lenin
It says they first met in 1902, and then later it says they first met in Capri (some time after 1906).

Gorky did not run away
In the first paragraph it states that at aged 12 Gorky ran away from home to find his grandmother. However in "My Apprenticeship" Gorky relates that between the ages of 12 or 13 he worked on a barge, as a servant in a relative's house and also at an ikon shop to name a few. By this age, he had no home, and would only occasionally see his grandmother, who seemed to have been homeless at times as well. She and Gorky's grandfather had split up when his grandfather lost all his money and they no longer lived together on a regular basis. In "My Apprenticeship" Gorky left many work situations and sometimes wound up back with his grandmother, but he really had no home to run away from. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 (talk) 23:11, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation
It is fine to state how Gorky pronounced his own surname, but that is not the be-all and end-all; it is important to give equal weight to the common usage of Russians. The drummer Paul Motian pronounced his (Armenian) name MO-tee-uhn and Lawrence Olivier said his name oh-LIV-ee-er, but it would be ludicrous for Wikipedia to give those pronunciations as the only, or only acceptable, version. Languagehat (talk) 14:54, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Nizhny Novgorod
It's very odd that the article makes no mention of the Soviets renaming Nizhny Novgorod for Gorky in 1932 — which event itself is odd, considering what Gorky wrote about Lenin. Sca (talk) 14:40, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Gallery section
The huge gallery section is goofy. This is not normal for a Wikipedia artixle. I suggest removing it. Wikimedia Commons already has pages like these: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maxim_Gorky_in_photography At most this article should have a link to such a category on Wikimedia Commons.--75.83.76.23 (talk) 00:48, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Since nobody said anything in response to what I posted above yesterday, I'm going to remove the gallery section, while putting in cross-links to two Wikimedia Commons categories.--75.83.76.23 (talk) 22:31, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Marriage
Gorky's first wife was Yekaterina Peshkova, the leader of the Political Red Cross. Nothing about this wife or any other is in the article. Binksternet (talk) 20:14, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
 * See Maria Andreyeva.

Poison
Conquest implied that Gorky was poisoned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.10.165 (talk) 13:20, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * See Arkadi Vaksberg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.181.10.165 (talk) 13:40, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Vaksberg is already in the article, under "Further Reading". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.180.222.5 (talk) 14:37, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Night's Lodging
Removed it from the list of plays. There is no 1919 play by Gorky called Night Lodging, see Bibliography. Judging by, say, this, what's meant, apparently, is Nachtasyl, in other words, that's just another translation of The Lower Depths. -- Evermore2 (talk) 21:34, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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