Nizhny Novgorod
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Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny and from 1932 to 1990 known as Gorky, is both a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.
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Maxim Gorky
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Befor
Nizhny Novgorod
…downstream of other Russian cities such as Moscow, Vladimir and Murom. From 1932 to 1990, the city was known as Gorky (Горький, ), in honour of author Maxim Gorky, who was born there. The city traces its origin from a small Russian wooden hillfort that was founded by grand prince Yuri II of Vladimir in 1221 at…
Gorky in 1906
"Ex Libris Maxim Gorki" bookplate from his personal library depicts the unchained Prometheus rising from the pages of a book, breaking a multi-tailed whip and shooing away black crows. Saint Basil's Cathedral is portrayed in the background
Anton Chekhov and Gorky. 1900, Yalta
Leo Tolstoy with Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana, 1900