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MAXYM GORKY.
His real name is Alexy Pieschkov, but he is only known by his nom-de-plume: Gorky (bitter). Bitter indeed were the days of his childhood.
He was born in 1869, in the town of Nijni-Novogrod, in the workshop of a painter-varnisher.
His grandfather was an officer in one of the regiments in Siberia, and treated the soldiers so cruelly, that even the Tsar, Nicolae I.—who was notorious for severity—dismissed the veteran from the service.
By his action this tyrant forced Gorky’s father to leave the parental home in Tobolsk.
