Публицистическое произведение Максима Горького (1868—1936), впервые опубликованное в 1911 году в переводе на французский язык в журнале «La Revue» (Париж,, № 14 от 15 июля). На русском языке опубликовано в 1927 году в журнале «Молодая гвардия» (№ 1, январь).
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.
This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.