GORKI, MAXIM (1868-1936). Postcard photograph signed in Cyrillic script, n.p., n.d. [circa 1906]. 138 x 87 mm. (5½ x 3½ in.), a little soiling and wear at edges, some browning on verso. A seated half-length profile portrait of the author at his desk writing with his head resting on his left hand, boldly signed across the center of the image, addressed on the verso to Oskar Popper in Vienna (in an unknown hand) with the postal cancellation dated Berlin, March 15, 1906. "The grim writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov chose a pen name that means 'the bitter one' - not surprising, since he was orphaned and sent to work as a dishwasher on a Volga steamer at the age of nine. As the first Russian writer to emerge from the lower classes, he was a sometime favorite of the Bolsheviks; but not of Stalinists, who ordered him killed in 1936"--W.M.
GORKI, MAXIM (1868-1936). Postcard photograph signed in Cyrillic script, n.p., n.d. [circa 1906]. 138 x 87 mm. (5½ x 3½ in.), a little soiling and wear at edges, some browning on verso. A seated half-length profile portrait of the author at his desk writing with his head resting on his left hand, boldly signed across the center of the image, addressed on the verso to Oskar Popper in Vienna (in an unknown hand) with the postal cancellation dated Berlin, March 15, 1906. "The grim writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov chose a pen name that means 'the bitter one' - not surprising, since he was orphaned and sent to work as a dishwasher on a Volga steamer at the age of nine. As the first Russian writer to emerge from the lower classes, he was a sometime favorite of the Bolsheviks; but not of Stalinists, who ordered him killed in 1936"--W.M.
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