Caption:
Maxim Gorky, reading his playing "At The Bottom" to the arts Theatre actors. From the painting by A.I. Kiriloy. Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist and first President of the Union of Soviet Writers. 18 December 1902. Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies