Was it bitter?

Maxim Gorky is the famous Soviet writer, immortalized in the names of cities, streets, planes and almost disappeared from cultural everyday life to a new, post -Soviet era. For many years he was extolled as an “petrel of revolution”, a devoted adherent and propagandist of communist ideas, and then condemned for this. Meanwhile, he was never a 100 % Bolshevik, his creative method does not fit into the Procrustean bed of “socialist realism”, and his biography is far from the standards of proletarian morality. In the book of the famous writer, poet, historian Dmitry Bykov, Gorky appears an outstanding person, an outstanding master of Russian prose, a witness and chronicler of great historical events