On this day

Birth of Russian, Soviet writer Maxim Gorky

28 March 1868

On March 16 (28), 1868, in Nizhny Novgorod, Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov, who became famous as the writer Maxim Gorky, was born in the family of cabinetmaker Maxim Savvatyevich Peshkov (1840–1871) and Varvara Vasilievna Kashirina (1842–1879).