The Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma Painting by Peter Paul Rubens

Maxim Gorky, the pseudonym of Russian writer Alexie Peshkov, was a writer of the people in the real sense of the term. He had a first-hand knowledge of the sufferings of the commonman and in his writings, we find the moving details of the cruelties and injustices to which the people of Russia were subjected in the pre-revolutionary days. Gorky longed to see the emancipation of the people from such a hard lot which emerged in the form of 1917 Boshevik Revolution. Gorky is one of the most discussed and translated authors of the Soviet Union. Mother is his most famour novel which has been translated into all the leading languages of the world.