Author Description

In his new novel, Gorky put before him the task to represent as fully as possible the forty years of his life in Russia, from the 80s to 1918. The novel should have the character of the chronicle, which celebrate all the largest events of these years, and especially during the reign of Nicholas II. The novel - in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the provinces, in the novel are the representatives of all classes. The author intends to give a number of characters of Russian revolutionaries, sects, and so people underclass. D. In the center of the novel - the figure "reluctant revolutionary ', for fear of an inevitable revolution - figure of a man who feels himself a" victim of history. " This figure author considers typical. In the novel, a lot of women, a number of small personal dramas, paintings Khodynka catastrophe, 9th January 1905 in St. Petersburg, Moscow uprising, and so on. E. Up to the assault on Petersburg gene. Yudenich. The author introduces a series of episodic actors: Tsar Nicholas II-nd, Savva Morozov, some artists, writers, that, in his opinion, and gives the novel in part the nature of the chronicle.