"These fragmentary notes were written by me during the period when I lived in Oleise and Leo Nikolaevich at Gaspra in the Crimea." Gorky was the first writer to describe Russia from inside the world of workers, wanderers, and unfortunates. Born as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, this great man was a Russian writer and political activist. He had associations with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his writings.
