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Gorky

Gorky

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Russian writer who wrote plays, novels, and short stories about poor people and social injustice
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɡɔrki/
: Gorki
  • Pauling proposed that he meet with Sakharov in Gorky, but the request was denied.
  • Maxim Gorky
  • Gorky Park

Examples

  • The Central Telegraph on Gorky Street was open twenty-four hours a day.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • There was a death mask in the movie Gorky Park.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • There was an incident last night, at Gorky Park.

    Red Sparrow (2018)

  • The cold was what really brought me to, though I was already staggering along Gorky Street.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • In August, the army daily held an "open house" in Moscow's Gorky Park to inform the general public on army-related issues.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Last night in Moscow, the Democratic Front rallied outside Gorky Park to call for the de-legalization of the Communist Party.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Chagall, who stayed in Soviet Russia until 1922, eventually walked the same Moscow streets as writers Maxim Gorky and Anna Akhmatova.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The in-flight movie is Gorky Park—a film I auditioned for a couple of years back.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Anthropologist Pestrikhov sneers at the simplistic image of Gerasimov as a government lackey in Gorky Park.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Zvenyatsky is the producer and director at the Maxim Gorky Theatre in Vladivostok.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Gorky is the pen name of the Russian writer Alexei Peshkov, taken from the Russian word gorkiy meaning 'bitter'. He chose it to show feeling for people with hard lives, so the name reminds us that his stories are about poverty and social unfairness.