Literature
Maxim Gorky
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
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Bugrov Lodging House
He transformed observations of Nizhny Novgorod’s shelters and their residents into the setting and characters of “The Lower Depths.”
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Bugrov Night Shelter
His observations of the shelter and its inhabitants helped shape the setting and characters of The Lower Depths.
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Chaliapin School Museum
He promoted the project and enlisted Chaliapin’s financial help in establishing the school.
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Former Nizhegorodsky Listok Editorial Office
He produced numerous reports, feuilletons and stories for “Nizhegorodsky Listok” between 1896 and 1904.
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Former Stolby Tea House
He initiated and publicly promoted the tea house and reading room for Millionka’s poor.
Lived here
Gogin House
He lived here intermittently from 1880 to 1884 while working for contractor Vasily Sergeyev.
Lived here
Gorky House in the Lemke Estate
Gorky lived here in 1900–1901 and wrote several important literary works during the stay.
Lived here
Gorky House on Ilyinskaya Street
Gorky lived here with his family from March 16 to May 7, 1898, before his arrest.
Commemorated here
Gorky Square
Lived here
Kurepin House
He lived here with his family and completed “Foma Gordeyev” during his rise to national fame.
Lived here
Lemke Estate, Gorky’s Korolenko Street Home
He lived here in 1900–1901 and wrote major revolutionary and dramatic works before his arrest.
Lived here
Maxim Gorky Museum-Apartment
He lived and worked here from 1902 to 1904, completing “The Lower Depths” and developing several later works.
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Millionka Slum Quarter
His encounters with Millionka’s impoverished residents supplied material for his stories about tramps and for “The Lower Depths.”
Lived here
Porkhunov House
As a child servant, he lived here in 1879–1880 while working for the Porkhunov household and shoe business.
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Stolby Tea House
He initiated the educational tea house and helped devise its program for the urban poor.
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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.”
Traces in other cities
- Moscow
- Gorky Park
- Kazan
- Gorky Street
- Moscow
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- 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.
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