GORKY MAXIM: (1868-1936) Russian Writer and political socialist Activist.

GORKY MAXIM: (1868-1936) Russian Writer and political socialist Activist.
A good L.S., M. Gorky, in Cyrillic, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Axel Gallen in Helsinki, in French. Gorki writes a letter of introduction, `I am introducing you to Mr. and Mrs. Ugo Ojetti - our Italian friends who are travelling to Russia and Finland. I am convinced that as soon as you meet them they will become your friends, because they are charming, good people, with refined and sought minds. I would like that you introduce them to all the best of your beautiful and dear country, and I am sure in advance that you will do so with your usual kindness and grace. ´ With blank integral leaf. The text of the letter is the hand of Maria Andreyeva (1868-1953) Russian Actress, the mistress and eventual common law wife of Gorky. Some very slight, minor smudging to the signature, VGUgo Ojetti (1871-1946) Italian Art Critic and Journalist, founder of the art magazine Il Dedalo with his wife Fernanda. Ojetti and his wife were friends with Gorky, who lived in exile in Capri from 1906-13 and again in Sorrento from 1921-28.Gorky was a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, some of his most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Children of the Sun (1905) and The Mother (1906). He was associated with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both of whom he would later mention in his memoirs. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement and publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, for a time closely associating himself with Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. For much of his life he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union, returning in 1932 after accepting Joseph Stalin's personal invitation.