Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: ), was a Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.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.

Das Werk der Artamonows Maxim Gorky - In "Das Werk der Artamonows" schildert Gorki den Aufstieg und Niedergang einer russischen Bourgeois-Familie in der Zeit nach der Aufhebung der Leibeigenschaft bis zur Oktoberrevolution. Drei Familien-Generationen sind in die Handlung des Romans verstrickt.