MAXIM GORKY EXECUTED.
ANOTHER GROSS DEED
(Received 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. Berlin reports state that the Bolsheviks executed Maxim Gorky at Petrograd.—U. Service.
Maxim Gorky, aged about 50, was a Russian realistic novelist, and in 1905 was imprisoned as a political offender. The story of his life was thus tersely summarised by himself: —"In 1878 I was apprenticed to a shoemaker; 1879 I was apprenticed to a designer; 1880, scullion on board a packet boat; 1883, I worked for a baker; 1884, I became a baker; 1885, baker; 1886, choriste r in a troupe of strolling opera players; 1887,1 sold apples in the streets; 1888, I attempted to commit suicide; 1890, copyist in a lawyer's office; 1891, I crossed Russia on foot; 1892, labourer in the workshops of a railway. In the same year I published my first story." He was probably the most popular Russian novelist of his time.
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1919, Page 5
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