Publisher's Synopsis
Through Russia ia a collection of short stories about Russia. About Gorky: Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov (March 28, 1868 - June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929 he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union he accepted the cultural policies of the time, although he was not permitted to leave the country.
