Maxim Gorky

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (March 28, 1868 – June 18, 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky, Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist, vintage silver print 'real photo' postcard.

Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement. He publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, and for a time closely associated himself with Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov's Bolshevik wing of the party. For a significant part of his life, he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. In 1932, he returned to Russia on Joseph Stalin's personal invitation and died in June 1936.

Verso bears original printed postcard graphics and light mounting trace, else blank and clean. In fine condition with very minor signs of wear.