Biography of a bitter film

The plot of the film is built on the story of a leading specialist in the study of the heritage of the Gorky Doctor of Philological Sciences Lidia Alekseevna Spiridonova about the discoveries that she made for many years of studying the creative heritage of the great writer. She prepared several volumes of Gorky's correspondence for the publication. In these deeply personal lines, gathered together from sources from various archives and personal collections, a completely unknown, multifaceted person in his creative talent is visible.

Cognizing the personality and work of Gorky more and more, we are more clearly and more clearly understood what was said by the French writer Henri Jew: “From now on, Maxim Gorky belongs to history. His place among the greatest. ” The film opens up a lot of unexpected person in the personality of Gorky. For example, the attitude to history and its interpretation of historical events.

The writer reflected on the price of historical progress, thought about the ratio of categories of “state and personality”, “freedom and necessity”, “absolutism of strong power and the happiness of an individual”. Having survived the harsh era of wars and revolutions, Gorky lost his inherent romanticism, and with it the hopes for the creation of the World International of the Intelligentsia.

He could not come to terms with the totalitarian power that violating human rights. The film also tells about his life in Italy. This love was mutual. Gorky lived on Capri and in Sorrento for 17 years, many of his works were written here, including the incomplete novel “Life of Klim Samghin”, which he considered his main work. The Mediterranean climate extended the life of Gorky tuberculosis to patient.

The years lived far from the events of the motherland seething, gave him the opportunity to realize his creative plans, in other words, to write calmly. At home, being in the center of military revolutionary events, he certainly could not do this.

Members of the Italo-Russian Friendship Society carried out large-scale work to find materials about the stay of Gorky in their country. All newspaper publications and memoirs of people who were next to the writer were collected. The film is attended by: Lidia Spiridonova, Doctor of Philology; Marina Arias, candidate of philological sciences; Giovanni de Martino, Mayor G. Gorky; Svetlana Demkina, head of the Museum of A.

Gorky Institute of World Literature named after Gorky; Maxim Peshkov, great -grandson A. Maxim Gorky ”; Anastasia Plotnikova, candidate of philological sciences; Natalia Primochkina, Doctor of Philology; Giuseppe Kuomo, mayor of G. Author of the script and producer - Natalia Spiridonova. The director is Igor Kholodkov. The film was prepared by the galaxy television and radio company in the year with the support of the History of the Fatherland Foundation.

Maxim Gorky real name and surname-Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov on March 16 28. Having graduated from two classes of the Slobodsky Primary School, could not continue further education due to poverty. He was forced to start working since he was ten years old. Having a unique memory, Gorky all his life intensely engaged in self -education. In the year he went to Kazan, where he participated in the work of underground populists.

The connection with the revolutionary movement has largely determined its life and creative aspirations. His "song about the Petrel" became a symbol of the growing revolutionary movement in Russia. Involved in active political activity at the beginning of the first Russian revolution, Gorky was forced to emigrate in January at the end of the year. The peak of the conscious political engagement of the socio-democratic coloring of the writer came in the years when the play “Enemies”, the novel “Mother”, the journalistic collections “My Interview” and “In America” were published.

At the same time, already in the novel “Confession” written by a year later, a wider worldview and a set of philosophical ideas, related to Bogosta, was affected by the proximity of Gorky to the circle of A. Bogdanov and A. Lunacharsky, which caused V. During the February and October Revolutions of the Year, Gorky sought to fight the anti -humanistic and anti -cultural arbitrariness, which was made by the rate at which the rate was made.

The Bolsheviks cycle of articles “untimely thoughts” in the newspaper “New Life”. After the October Revolution, on the one hand, he joined the cultural and public work of new institutions, and on the other, he criticized the Bolshevik terror, tried to save from arrests and executions in some cases - successfully representatives of the creative intelligentsia. The strengthening disagreements with the policy of V.

Lenin led Gorky in October to emigration formally, it was presented as traveling abroad for treatment, which lasted up to a year. Having finally returned to the USSR in May, Gorky took an active part in cultural construction, led the training of the I All -Union Congress of Soviet Writers, participated in the creation of a number of institutions, publishers and magazines. His speeches and organizational efforts played a significant role in the statement of the aesthetics of socialist realism.The journalism of these years characterizes Gorky as one of the ideologists of the Soviet system, indirectly and directly acting with the apologetics of the Stalinist regime.

At the same time, he repeatedly addressed I. Stalin with petitions for repressed figures of science, literature and art. Text: Vera Marunova.