Writer Maxim Gorky was known as the leading Soviet writer, the favorite of beautiful women of his time, and the founder of socialist realism. He died at a government dacha under the supervision of the NKVD minister Yagoda and personally under the watch of Comrade Stalin. After Stalin’s unexpected visit to the writer, he had only nine days left to live.
Pavel Basinsky, a well-known writer and journalist, offers his version of Maxim Gorky’s biography based strictly on documentary material, including archival data. His book "Passions for Maxim. Gorky: Nine Days After Death" tells the story of the complicated life of this significant figure of Russian history and literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.