Maxim Gorky (1941)

Portraits of A. M. Gorky.

Title page of a desk calendar for 1868. An entry in the register of births of a son, Alexei, in the Peshkov family.

An abacus and a ledger on a desk.

Coins worth one ruble, obverse and reverse.

Images of double-headed eagles on trade signs and building walls.

A prison wall.

Views of houses and streets in the historical part of Gorky (former Nizhny Novgorod) in the early 1940s.

The house on Uspensky Syezd, where Alyosha Peshkov's grandfather, Vasily Kashirin, lived.

A sign on the pediment of the facade about the ownership of the house and exemption from billeting.

A padlock on the gate.

View of the stable gate.

A wooden grave cross leaning against the wall of a barn.

The interior of the Kashirins' house, where Gorky spent his childhood.

Interiors of rooms.

A tub with rods standing by a wooden bench.

The interior of Alyosha Peshkov's grandmother's room.

An open psalter on the table.

The title pages of the books that Alyosha Peshkov read.

The building that housed the primary school where Alyosha Peshkov studied for one winter.

Alyosha Peshkov's commendation.

The inscription made by Alyosha Peshkov on the commendation.

The building of the school.

Sculpture of Alyosha Peshkov.

The gates of the Kashirins' house opening.

View of Uspensky Descent.

Soggy roads.

Volga landscapes.

Fragments of Repin's painting "Barge Haulers on the Volga", the faces of the barge haulers in the painting.

Steamboats sailing along the Volga.

Volga landscapes at sunset, boats on the water.

The books that Alyosha Peshkov read while serving in the galley of a Volga steamboat.

Drawing of Alyosha Peshkov reading a book.

Views of the slums of Nizhny Novgorod in the Milyonka area.

Newsreel and photographs of stevedores and slum dwellers in the port of Nizhny Novgorod.

Fragment of Gorky's play "The Lower Depths", monologue by Satin.

Views of Kazan.

View of a part of the Kazan Kremlin.

Building of Kazan University.

Interiors of a bakery and bakery where Gorky worked as a baker's assistant.

Colonnade of the Kazan University building.

Portrait of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin in the year of his graduation from high school.

Painting depicting V.I. Ulyanov's participation in student unrest at Kazan University.

Portraits of revolutionary N. Fedoseyev.

Titles of books by Russian revolutionary figures and "Capital" by K. Marx.

Map of Gorky's travels across Russia in the late 1880s (animation).

Autumn landscapes, leaves falling from the trees.

Cover of Alexei Peshkov's supervisory police case from 1889. Notes on one of the pages of the case.

Portrait of young A.M. Peshkov.

View of the building of the Nizhny Novgorod prison where A. Peshkov was imprisoned.

View of one of the prison towers.

A stream of melt water runs.

Ice drift on the Volga.

View of a section of a dirt road.

View of a section of the Black Sea coast.

Mountain landscapes of Georgia.

Views of the city of Gori, where Gorky visited in 1892, a fortress on a hill.

Views of the Gori Fortress.

Terrace of the house where I.V. Stalin was born.

Memorial plaque on the wall of the Stalin House-Museum in Gori.

A mountain river flows.

Views of the Georgian Military Road, along which Gorky walked to Tiflis.

Panorama of Tbilisi (from above).

Views of the house in Tbilisi, where Gorky met the political exile A.M. Kalyuzhny.

Portrait of Kalyuzhny.

Publication of Gorky's first story "Makar Chudra" in the newspaper "Kavkaz".

Portraits of Gorky, mountain landscapes.

Headlines of the Volga newspapers, where Gorky published his first works - stories and feuilletons.

The first edition of essays and short stories by Maxim Gorky, published in 1898. Photographs of Gorky with L. N. Tolstoy and A. P. Chekhov.

Police files with documents about Gorky.

Views of the Metekhi Castle in Tiflis, where Gorky was imprisoned.

A letter from the Academy of Sciences to Gorky about his election as an honorary academician in belles-lettres.

Photo portraits of Gorky, a caricature of Nicholas II. A fragment of Gorky's letter about a skirmish with a Black Hundred member.

Gorky's cigarette case, pierced by a knife.

Covers of editions of Gorky's works from the early 20th century, the title "Songs about the Petrel".

Sea waves crashing against the rocks.

Seascape, storm at sea.

Fragments of the typographic text of "Songs about the Petrel".

Sculpture of Gorky.

Fragments of paintings depicting the events of January 9, 1905 and the First Russian Revolution.

A painted portrait of Gorky in 1905. View of part of the Neva and the Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad.

Wall of the Trubetskoy Bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress, where Gorky was imprisoned in 1905. Interior view of one of the cells.

Barred window of the cell.

Views of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Poster for Gorky's play "Enemies".

A scene from the play "Enemies" performed by the actors of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Portrait of Gorky at his desk.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Headlines of publications of the Bolshevik press, for which Gorky collaborated.

Title of Gorky's novel "Mother".

Illustrations for the novel "Mother".

Covers of the novel "Mother", published in the USSR and abroad.

Text of Lenin's statement about the novel "Mother".

A painting depicting a conversation between Lenin, Gorky and the delegates of the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP in London.

The text of Lenin's letter to Gorky, written in January 1908. Newsreel from the 1910s: a seascape, a view of the island of Capri.

A view of part of one of the piers.

Faces of local teenagers.

A cabby on the box.

A policeman on duty.

A photograph of Lenin during his stay at Gorky's on Capri in 1908. A photograph of Gorky during his stay on Capri.

Forest landscapes of the Leningrad Region near the village of Kiryavala, where Gorky lived in 1914 after returning from emigration.

A view of part of the Gorky House-Museum.

Interiors of rooms in Gorky's house.

A photograph of Gorky.

Newsreel from 1914-1915: the ruins of houses in a European city.

A steam locomotive thrown onto an embankment.

A view of a half-submerged ship.

A destroyed railway bridge.

Ruins of a city block.

A woman with children at a temporary dwelling among the ruins.

Portrait of Gorky.

Newsreel from 1917: soldiers and Red Guards at the entrance to Smolny in October 1917. A military unit climbs the steps of Smolny.

A scene from Gorky's play "Dostigayev and Others".

Newsreel from 1918-1920: one of the first units of the Red Army passes by.

Panorama of part of the rally (top).

Lenin V.I. speaks at a rally to mark the laying of the foundation stone for the "Liberated Labor" monument on Prechistenskaya Embankment on May 1, 1920. A detachment of Red Navy sailors crossing the rails, fragments of posters from the Civil War.

One of the Red Army echelons being sent to the front.

Portrait of Stalin in 1920. View of the central part of the Tauride Palace building.

Photograph of Lenin and Gorky at the colonnade of the palace during a break in the Second Congress of the Comintern on July 19, 1920. Drawing depicting Lenin and Gorky.

The doors to Lenin's memorial office in the Kremlin opening.

Interiors and furnishings of the office.

Desk in Lenin's office.

Photo portrait of Gorky before leaving for treatment abroad.

Gorky's manuscripts.

Envelopes of letters addressed to Gorky, addresses on the envelopes.

Newsreel: arrival of a train at Belorussky Station in the spring of 1928. Faces of people greeting Gorky on the platform.

View of the square in front of the station, filled with people greeting Gorky.

Ordzhonikidze G.K. and Yaroslavsky E.M., faces of those greeting him, exit the carriage door.

Gorky exits the carriage, thanks for the meeting.

View of Tverskaya Zastava Square, people on the square greeting Gorky.

Gorky delivers a welcoming speech.

Voroshilov K.E. during the ceremonial meeting of Gorky.

View of Tverskaya Zastava Square (from above).

Gorky's car, accompanied by a horse escort, drives along Tverskaya Street.

Gorky exits the car near the Bolshoi Theater.

View of the Bolshoi Theater hall during the ceremonial plenum of the Moscow City Council in honor of Gorky's arrival.

Gorky talks to a female worker before the ceremonial meeting.

Gorky embraces one of the participants in the plenum.

Fragment of Gorky's handwritten text (animation).

Panorama of part of the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

Gorky's face against the background of the construction.

Manual work on the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

View of the ceremonial meeting at the Gigant state farm during the meeting with Gorky.

Gorky speaks from the rostrum in front of the state farm workers, faces of the rally participants.

The rally participants applaud Gorky.

Gorky on the presidium of the ceremonial meeting during his visit to Baku oil workers.

Views of mosques and streets of old Baku.

Manual oil extraction in the early 20th century.

View of one of the oil fields.

View of the coastal part of Baku (above).

Gorky during his visit to the Baltic Shipyard.

Launching of the Molotov timber carrier.

Gorky talks with the management and workers of the plant.

View of one of the stands of the Dynamo stadium in Moscow during the International Pioneer Rally.

Faces of the pioneers participating in the rally.

Gorky talks with Voroshilov.

Faces of the rally participants, Gorky and A.I. Mikoyan on the stadium stand.

Gorky speaking from the rostrum to the Young Pioneers.

Views and panorama of the anti-war rally in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure (above).

Gorky speaking from the rostrum to the rally participants, views of the rally.

Gorky leaves the rostrum, rally participants applaud.

Gorky during a visit to the Red Army summer camps.

Red Army soldiers greet Gorky.

Gorky speaking from the rostrum to the Red Army soldiers, faces of the Red Army soldiers.

View of part of the ceremonial rally in the summer military camps (above), Gorky speaking from the rostrum.

A small-caliber rifle presented to Gorky by the Red Army soldiers of the Proletarian Division.

Moscow workers' correspondents in the hall during a meeting with Gorky.

Gorky speaking from the rostrum.

Journalists in the hall applaud.

Newsreel: panorama of the pier in Naples, Gorky and his entourage walking along the pier in the autumn of 1930. The steamship Abkhazia with leading workers on board, making a tourist voyage around Europe.

Faces of Italian policemen and customs officers.

Passengers of the steamship wave their hands from the side of the ship.

Gorky greets the Soviet guests, standing on the pier.

Passengers of the steamship wave their hands in greeting.

Gorky's face.

Italian policemen on the pier.

Gorky greets Soviet tourists who have disembarked from the steamship, hugs them.

Faces of Italian policemen and customs officers.

Gorky talks with the arriving Soviet citizens.

Arrival of the train at Negoreloye station on May 13, 1931. Sign with the name of the station.

Gorky speaks from the window of the carriage to the people standing on the platform (synchronously).

Welcoming slogan on the station building.

People near the train car talking with Gorky.

Faces of the military men talking with Gorky.

Gorky at the train car window.

Red Army soldiers near the train car telling Gorky about their successes in combat and political training (synchronously).

Gorky's office in the house on Malaya Nikitskaya.

Gorky's desk.

Glasses and writing set on the table.

Interior of the library in Gorky's house.

Part of the library interior.

Cover of the volume "History of the Civil War in the USSR".

Books on a round table.

Photograph of the meeting between Gorky and Stalin.

Interior of the dining room.

Painting depicting Gorky reading his poem "The Girl and Death" to Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov on October 11, 1931. Stalin's resolution in the margins of the poem's publication.

Portraits of Gorky in Soviet newspapers on the 40th anniversary of Gorky's literary activity in 1932. Text of Stalin's greeting to Gorky.

Text of the Resolution of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on awarding Gorky the Order of Lenin, published in the press.

The Order of Lenin, kept in the Gorky Museum.

Newsreel: Gorky at his desk in his office in 1932-1933. Pencils and a paperweight on the table.

The cover of Gorky's books, published in the USSR in the 1930s.

Newsreel: Gorky sitting at his desk.

Manuscripts of Gorky's articles on the problems of the development of Soviet culture.

Newsreel: Gorky at his desk putting a cigarette in an ashtray.

Athletes with banners march across Red Square on May 1, 1931. Mikoyan A.I., Gorky A.M., Kirov S.M., Stalin I.V., Voroshilov K.E. on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Gorky's face in profile.

Stalin on the tribune of the mausoleum.

Athletes march across Red Square.

Girls in sailor suits pass by.

Stalin and Gorky walk to the mausoleum on May 1, 1934. Participants in the physical culture parade walk along Red Square, Gorky, Kaganovich L.M., Molotov V.M., Mikoyan on the mausoleum tribune.

A model of a truck on a moving pedestal.

Views of the house and park in Gorki, where Gorky lived in the summer.

Gorky looks at the surroundings from the balcony of the house.

Landscapes of central Russia.

Gorky dressed in an old cape coat.

Summer landscapes.

Gorky on a bench with his granddaughters.

Bench in the park.

Gorky talks with the French writer Romain Rolland during a meeting in Gorki on July 16, 1935. Gorky's face.

View of the wall of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in August 1934. Gorky A.M. Gets out of the car.

Views of the hall and the presidium of the congress, delegates applaud.

Gorky wipes his face with a handkerchief.

Gorky's face.

Gorky delivers a speech from the rostrum about the role and tasks of Soviet writers in socialist construction, the need to learn from each other (synchronously).

Congress participants applaud Gorky.

Views of the dacha in Crimea where Gorky lived in the spring of 1936. Living room interior.

View from the open window, Crimean seascape.

Desk in Gorky's office.

Unfinished page of the manuscript of the novel "The Life of Klim Samgin".

Text of a newspaper report about Gorky's illness.

View of the house in Gorki where Gorky spent the last days of his life.

Interior of Gorky's office.

Text of the Resolution of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR "On the Constitution of the USSR", published in the newspaper "Pravda".

Painting depicting Voroshilov, Stalin and Molotov at the bedside of the sick Gorky.

View of the house in Gorki.

Part of the interior of Gorky's office.

Nightlight on the table by Gorky's bed.

Clock and book on the table.

The clock shows the time of Gorky's death - 11.10. The bed on which Gorky died.

View of the house in Gorki.

A message in the newspaper "Pravda" about Gorky's death.

Newsreel: people at the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the days of farewell to Gorky during the days of farewell to Gorky in June 1936. People walk to the coffin with Gorky's body, installed in the Column Hall.

Gorky in the coffin.

The face of a young man.

Young Pioneers in the honor guard give a salute.

Faces of girls passing by the coffin.

Gorky in the coffin, faces of people passing by the coffin.

Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Ordzhonikidze G.K., Kaganovich L.M. in the guard of honor at Gorky's coffin.

Faces of Zhdanov A.A., Andreev A.A. standing in the guard of honor.

View of a part of Red Square on the day of Gorky's funeral, June 20, 1936. View of the funeral procession with the urn with Gorky's ashes, moving along Red Square (top).

The face of the Red Army commander.

The urn with Gorky's ashes on the pedestal in front of the mausoleum.

Dimitrov G.M., Kaganovich, Stalin stand with bare heads.

Views of Red Square during the funeral meeting (top).

Bulganin N.A. places the urn with Gorky's ashes in a niche in the Kremlin wall.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

Funeral artillery salute, faces of participants in the funeral meeting.

Stalin's face.

A plaque with Gorky's name and the dates of his life, covering a niche in the Kremlin wall.

Funeral wreaths at the Kremlin wall.

An honorary military guard at the Kremlin wall.

Gorky's face.