MAXIM GORKY.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 196, 19 August 1919, Page 5

MAXIM GORKY.

REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT (Received 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, August IS. Berlin reports state that the Bolsheviks executed Maxim Corky, the famous Russian author, at Petrograd.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Maxim Gorky—tlie Bitter One—who ( ivas fifty years of age, is the best-known. \of the later Russian realists. In out-! lining his life he wrote: "In IS7B I was I apprenticed to a shoemaker, in 1579 I . was apprenticed to a designer, ISSO! scullion aboard a packet boat, 1883 1 worked for a baker, in I.SS4 1 became a : porter, in ISSS a baker, IS.Ii chorister in j a troupe of strolling players, 1887 sold j apples in the streets, ISSS attempted to commit suicide, 1.590 copyist hi a lawyer's ] office, 1891 crossed Russia on foot, 1892; was a labourer in the workshops of a rail- ■ way, in the same year I published my lirst: story."' Fame quickly came. Corky whose no\cls and stories have been translated into a do.en languages. He j wa-s imprisoned as a political offender in ' 190:1, and during the first revolution ; he was one of the active agents in over- j throwing Czardom. Apparently, however, he did not go far enough for the | Bolsheviks. His death is a great loss to Russian literature, while there could have been no more valuable chronicler of some of the phases of tho mighty up- j heaval throughout Russia, and in this the world is the poorer for this latest i Bolshevik outrage. _'' I