Gorky: The Passion of Maxim

Maxim Gorky is one of the most complex personalities of the late 19th to early 20th century. Even today, he remains a mysterious figure, largely inexplicable.
There is debate about the circumstances of his departure from life: some believe that he... died of natural causes, while others claim he was “helped,” as well as about his literary greatness. Was his fame initially the result of revolutionary fashion and later ideological propaganda? Why did he leave into emigration from Lenin, only to return to Stalin?
Pavel Basinsky, a writer and journalist, laureate of the “Big Book” prize, and author of bestsellers such as “Leo Tolstoy: Escape from Paradise,” “The True Story of Anna Karenina,” and “The True Story of Konstantin Levin,” as well as “Saint Against the Lion,” “The Lion in the Shadow of the Lion,” and “Look at Me. The Secret History of Liza Diakonova,” answers these and other questions.