1868 Maxim Gorky was born

150 years ago, on March 28, 1868, Maxim Gorky (Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov), the world famous Russian writer, was born, considered the founder of Soviet literature and its officially approved creative method - socialist realism. During the years of Stalinist terror, Gorky's aphorism was especially popular: "If the enemy does not surrender, he is destroyed."