The story “In the People” by M. Gorky, published in 1915, is the second part of the famous trilogy “Childhood”—“In the People”—“My Universities.” In vivid and memorable episodes, the writer conveyed the hero’s years of wandering, his clashes with the petty-bourgeois environment and the “masters of life,” and described his thirst for knowledge, his search for truth and justice. The book shows numerous encounters with gifted Russian people, whose abilities still couldn’t be revealed under the conditions of tsarist Russia. Through these trials, Gorky reveals the formation of the character of a new, positive hero.