USSR / Russia 1968 Medal of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of A.M. Gorky UNC

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Russia - USSR medal of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of A.M. Gorky. Moscow Art Academic Theater of the USSR named after M. Gorky, 1968
Shkurko, Salykov 526. Diameter 65mm. 119.88g. Tompac. Mintage 340 pc. UNC. ЛМД. A.V. Kozlov.
"100 лет со дня рождения М.Горького"

Maxim Gorky (1868–1936), born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, was a major Russian and Soviet writer whose vivid portrayals of the lower classes and revolutionary spirit made him one of the most influential literary figures of his time.

Born on March 28, 1868 (March 16, Old Style), in Nizhny Novgorod, Gorky lost his father early and was raised by his maternal grandparents under harsh conditions. Orphaned by age eleven, he left home as a teenager and spent years wandering across Russia as a tramp and laborer—working as a dishwasher, baker’s assistant, stevedore, and in many other menial jobs. These experiences of poverty and hardship deeply shaped his writing and led him to adopt the pen name “Gorky,” meaning “bitter.”

He began publishing in 1892 with the story “Makar Chudra.” His early romantic tales of tramps, outcasts, and rebels—such as “Chelkash” and “Old Izergil”—brought him rapid fame. Collections of short stories in the late 1890s established him as a powerful new voice. His landmark play The Lower Depths (1902) depicted the desperate lives of society’s marginalized with raw realism and became an international success. The novel Mother (1906–1907), written during a period of revolutionary involvement, portrayed the awakening of working-class consciousness and later became a foundational text of socialist realism.

A supporter of the revolutionary movement, Gorky associated closely with the Bolsheviks and faced repeated arrests and periods of exile. After the 1917 Revolution he initially supported the new regime but grew critical of its excesses; he lived abroad for much of the 1920s. His autobiographical trilogy—My Childhood, In the World, and My Universities (1913–1923)—stands among his finest achievements. He returned permanently to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s at Stalin’s invitation, was celebrated as the founder of socialist realism, and became the first chairman of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Gorky died on June 18, 1936, near Moscow under circumstances that remain debated. His work, blending naturalism, romanticism, and political engagement, gave voice to the downtrodden and left a lasting mark on Russian and world literature.

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