Maxim Gorky

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Nizhny Novgorod

Bugrov Lodging House — He transformed observations of Nizhny Novgorod’s shelters and their residents into the setting and characters of “The Lower Depths.”

Nizhny Novgorod

Bugrov Night Shelter — His observations of the shelter and its inhabitants helped shape the setting and characters of The Lower Depths.

Nizhny Novgorod

Chaliapin School Museum — He promoted the project and enlisted Chaliapin’s financial help in establishing the school.

Nizhny Novgorod

Former Nizhegorodsky Listok Editorial Office — He produced numerous reports, feuilletons and stories for “Nizhegorodsky Listok” between 1896 and 1904.

Nizhny Novgorod

Former Stolby Tea House — He initiated and publicly promoted the tea house and reading room for Millionka’s poor.

Nizhny Novgorod

Gogin House — He lived here intermittently from 1880 to 1884 while working for contractor Vasily Sergeyev.

Nizhny Novgorod

Gorky House in the Lemke Estate — Gorky lived here in 1900–1901 and wrote several important literary works during the stay.

Nizhny Novgorod

Gorky House on Ilyinskaya Street — Gorky lived here with his family from March 16 to May 7, 1898, before his arrest.

Nizhny Novgorod

Gorky Square

Kazan

Gorky Street

Nizhny Novgorod

Kurepin House — He lived here with his family and completed “Foma Gordeyev” during his rise to national fame.

Nizhny Novgorod

Lemke Estate, Gorky’s Korolenko Street Home — He lived here in 1900–1901 and wrote major revolutionary and dramatic works before his arrest.

Nizhny Novgorod

Maxim Gorky Museum-Apartment — He lived and worked here from 1902 to 1904, completing “The Lower Depths” and developing several later works.

Nizhny Novgorod

Millionka Slum Quarter — His encounters with Millionka’s impoverished residents supplied material for his stories about tramps and for “The Lower Depths.”

Kazan

National Library on Fedorovsky Hill — While living in Kazan, the future writer attempted suicide on Fedorovsky Hill on December 12, 1887, and survived after a monastery watchman found him.

Saint Petersburg

Peter and Paul Fortress — After the Bloody Sunday events of January 1905 he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress (released 14 February 1905 after international protests) — his most concrete monumental tie in the catalog.

Nizhny Novgorod

Porkhunov House — As a child servant, he lived here in 1879–1880 while working for the Porkhunov household and shoe business.

Nizhny Novgorod

Stolby Tea House — He initiated the educational tea house and helped devise its program for the urban poor.

Nizhny Novgorod

Upper Posad Trading Rows — He helped create a charitable Christmas celebration here and later drew on shopkeeper Yulia Bolotova’s story in “The Life of Klim Samgin.”