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Maxim Gorky, the great Russian writer of fiction and drama, was in real life a man called ______.

Maxim Gorky was the pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (1868–1936); 'gorky' means 'bitter' in Russian. The other names are invented and do not belong to any Russian…

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Maxim Gorky, the great Russian
writer of fiction and drama, was in
real life a man called ______.

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Maxim Gorky was the pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (1868–1936); 'gorky' means 'bitter' in Russian. The other names are invented and do not belong to any Russian writer.

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