Important Russian writer (1868-1936) who was a founder of the socialist realism literary method. Outstanding vintage circa 1906 matte-finish 5 x 7 photograph of Maxim Gorky on the deck of a ship with his common-law wife Maria Andreyeva, boldly signed in Cyrillic in ink, "M. Gorky." Reverse is imprinted with an advertisement for the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Große. In fine condition.
Gorky and Andreyeva arrived in the United States aboard the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse on April 10, 1906, on a goodwill tour and fundraising mission for the Russian Social Democratic Party (SDP). They proceeded to New York City, where Mark Twain hosted a dinner in his honor at dinner at Club A. The two authors delivered short speeches of salute and of encouragement to the Russian revolution, with Twain offering a forceful message: 'If we can build a Russian republic to give to the persecuted people of the Czar's domain the same measure of freedom that we enjoy, let us go ahead and do it.' Gorky, asked of his reading in American literature, praised his fellow writer: 'I have read Mark Twain. The reading proved an inspiration to me. It is part of the liberal education of Russia to read Mark Twain's works. They have all been translated and sold in hundreds of editions.'
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