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Gorky And His Contemporaries Memoirs And Letters

The reminiscences of Gorky presented in this book will bring the reader echoes of that great life. In these reminiscences Gorky appears as the herald of socialist art and the author of its classic literature, and also as a man actively involved in literary life—a fellow artist for some, an example and mentor for others, an unforgettable partner in conversation for still others.

Translated from the Russian by Cynthia Carlile
Designed by Boris Kazachkov
Compiled by Galina Belaya

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CONTENTS

Introduction 7

Memoirs
Yekaterina Peshkova. Gorky in Samara 18
Stepan Skitalets. Maxim Gorky. Meetings 24
Nikolai Teleshov. Notes of a Writer 36
Mikhail Nesterov. Distant Days 50
Maria Andreyeva. A Trip to the Crimea 54
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. From the Past (Excerpts) 57
Konstantin Stanislavsky. The Lower Depths 64
Isaak Babel. The Beginning 71
Kornei Chukovsky. Contemporaries (Excerpts) 75
Mikhail Slonimsky. The Early Years. M. Gorky 119
Konstantin Fedin. Gorky Amongst Us (Excerpts) 134
Vsevolod Ivanov. Meetings with Maxim Gorky 152
Alexander Voronsky. Meetings and Conversations with Maxim Gorky 165
Veniamin Kaverin. Gorky and Young People 195
Nikolai Aseyev. A Meeting with Gorky 206
Vladislav Khodasevich. Gorky 218
Yevgeny Zamyatin. M. Gorky 259
Lidia Seifullina. The Man 270

Letters
Gorky—Fedin
Fedin to Gorky. 28 January 1920 280
Fedin to Gorky. Beginning of September 1925 281
Gorky to Fedin. 17 September 1925 284
Fedin to Gorky. 16 January 1926 286

Gorky—Leonov
Leonov to Gorky. 25 (?) December 1927 288
Leonov to Gorky. 21 October 1930 290
Gorky to Leonov. 8 November 1930 294

Gorky—Zoshchenko
Zoshchenko to Gorky. 28 September 1927 295
Gorky to Zoshchenko. October 1927 296
Zoshchenko to Gorky. 30 September 1930 297
Zoshchenko to Gorky. January 1934 299
Gorky to Zoshchenko. 25 March 1936 300

Gorky—Pasternak
Pasternak to Gorky. 10 October 1927 302
Gorky to Pasternak. 18 October 1927 303
Gorky to Pasternak. 28 December 1927 304

Gorky—Sholokhov
Sholokhov to Gorky. 6 June 1931 305

Commentary 309

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Today in Labor History December 7, 1905: A General Strike of 150,000 workers began in Moscow, at the climax of the 1905 Russia Revolution. The strike escalated into a general uprising, with thousands of workers taking up arms against the imperial government. At least 400 workers died. The revolt was based in the apartment of writer, Maxim Gorky. Militants made bombs in his study and ate in his kitchen. On December 10, socialist revolutionaries bombed the headquarters of the Moscow Okhrana (secret police). By December 12, the rebels held six of the seven railway stations and many neighborhoods. On December 15, they assassinated the head of the Okhrana. However, the Imperial Guard brought in reinforcements on the 15th. They shelled the proletarian district of Presnia, home to 150,000 textile workers, and ultimately quashed the rebellion.

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"Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future."

~ MAXIM GORKY
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Today in Labor History December 7, 1905: A General Strike of 150,000 workers began in Moscow, at the climax of the 1905 Russia Revolution. The strike escalated into a general uprising, with thousands of workers taking up arms against the imperial government. At least 400 workers died. The revolt was based in the apartment of writer, Maxim Gorky. Militants made bombs in his study and ate in his kitchen. On December 10, socialist revolutionaries bombed the headquarters of the Moscow Okhrana (secret police). By December 12, the rebels held six of the seven railway stations and many neighborhoods. On December 15, they assassinated the head of the Okhrana. However, the Imperial Guard brought in reinforcements on the 15th. They shelled the proletarian district of Presnia, home to 150,000 textile workers, and ultimately quashed the rebellion.

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The "literary" Bolsheviks, in the circle of Maxim Gorky, are trying very hard. But in front of them I am sometimes lost. I don't believe somehow that they consciously longed for blind bloodshed, that they really didn't realise what they were saying.

#ZinaidaGippius 18 June 1917

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The writer Maxim Gorky avidly buys various vases and enamels from contemptible "bourgeoisie" who are dying of hunger. (At the old man E., an intellectual liberal, who is sick, Gorky himself came to see the remnants of Chinese porcelain. And how he bargained!). Gorky's apartment looks like a museum or an antique shop.

#ZinaidaGippius 1919

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Recently, (the writer Maxim Gorky) has started buying pornographic albums. But he doesn't understand anything in them. One antique librarian told me with innocent regret, "Gorky paid 10 thousand for one album, but it's not even worth five."

#ZinaidaGippius 1919

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