Gorky: Passion for Maxim

Maxim Gorky is one of the most complex personalities of the late XIX - the first third of the twentieth century. And today it remains a mysterious figure, largely inexplicable. They also argue about the circumstances of his departure: some believe that he died his death, others - that they “helped him”, and about his writer"s greatness: was he not a figure of his era? Was his glory at first the result of revolutionary fashion, and then ideological propaganda? Why did he go to exile from Lenin, and returned to Stalin?
Pavel Basinsky - writer and journalist, laureate of the prize "Big Book", author of the books “Leo Tolstoy”, “Saint against Leo "on the hostility of Tolstoy and John of Kronstadt,“ Leo in the Lion in the Lion ”answers these and other questions. Shadows of the lion "and" look at me. The secret story of Lisa Dyakonova ".
The book is a rich illustrative material, also the memoirs of Vladislav Khodasevich, Korney Chukovsky, Viktor Shklovsky, Evgeny Zamyatin and the little -known obituary of Lev Trotsky are also attached