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Maxim Gorky

Born on March 28, 1868

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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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