# Maxim Gorky — My Disillusionment in Russia character guide

> Maxim Gorky in My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Gorky, Presently Gorky

**First appearance:** 0004-ii-petrograd

## Who they are

Famous Russian writer who interacts with the narrator in Petrograd.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Maxim Gorky is a fellow writer and sympathetic observer of the revolution, sharing a bond of artistic and political kinship with the narrator.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Maxim Gorky is a fellow writer and sympathetic observer of the revolution, sharing a bond of artistic and political kinship with the narrator.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Maxim Gorky is a fellow writer and sympathetic observer of the revolution, sharing a bond of artistic and political kinship with the narrator.

## In the story

### [III: Disturbing Thoughts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/iii-disturbing-thoughts)

Gorky appears weary and evasive; his changed views on Bolshevism and his defense of isolating 'morally defective' children disappoint the narrator.

### [VII: Rest Homes for Workers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/vii-rest-homes-for-workers)

Mentioned as another influential figure whom the dispossessed might approach.

### [XX: Poltava](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xx-poltava)

Korolenko writes appeals to Gorky to intervene against executions.

### [Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxvi-death-and-funeral-of-peter-kropotkin)

Gorky, as an official of the Commissariat of Education, sent a protest similar to Kropotkin's against the liquidation of private publishing establishments.

### [XXVII: Kronstadt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxvii-kronstadt)

Considered as a possible leader of a protest committee but believed to be too aligned with the Bolsheviks to act.

### [Education and Culture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxx-education-and-culture)

Mentioned as one of the foster-fathers of the Proletcult who admitted its failure by 1920; his wife Andreyeva performed as Desdemona in a poorly staged Othello.

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