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Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War , Gorky Park is the first book in a series featuring the character Arkady Renko , a Moscow homicide investigator.
Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure (Russian: Центральный парк культуры и отдыха (ЦПКиО) имени Горького, romanized: Tsentralny park kultury i otdykha imeni Gorkogo, IPA: [tsɨnˈtralʲnɨj ˈpark kʊlʲˈturɨ i ˈodːɨxə ˈimʲɪnʲɪ ˈɡorʲkəvɐ]) is a central park in Moscow, named ...
"Creatures That Once Were Men" (Russian: Бывшие люди, literally, "former people") is a 1897 novella by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky. It is regarded as a work of social realism , and it depicts the bottom of Russian society (like Gorky's other early works, including his most famous play The Lower Depths ) [ 1 ] The novella was ...
(Also, conveying an innocent meaning to an outsider but a hidden meaning to a member of a conspiracy or underground movement.) Ahmadiyya – Ahmad (as in Ahmadiyya) Aldine – Aldus Manutius (as in Aldine Press) Alexandrine – Alexander the Great (as in Alexandrine verse); also Alexandrian (as in Alexandrian period) American – Amerigo Vespucci
The action in Gorky Park takes place in the Soviet Union and in the US, Polar Star on board a Soviet fishing vessel in the Bering Sea, and Red Square in West Germany and the Glasnost-era Soviet Russia. [1] [2] Havana Bay is set in Cuba; Wolves Eat Dogs is set in Moscow and in the areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
The city of Nizhny Novgorod, and the surrounding province were renamed Gorky. Moscow's main park, and one of the central Moscow streets, Tverskaya, were renamed in his honour, as was the Moscow Art Theatre. The largest fixed-wing aircraft in the world in the mid-1930s, the Tupolev ANT-20 was named Maxim Gorky in his honour.
"The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (Russian: Песня о Буревестнике, Pesnya o Burevestnike/Pesńa o Burevestnike) is a short piece of revolutionary literature written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1901. The poem is written in a variation of unrhymed trochaic tetrameter with occasional Pyrrhic substitutions.
It places Gorky, the young Gorky, among the true classics of our literature. But "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" is alone in its supreme beauty - and it is the last of Gorky's early good work: for fourteen years he was to be a wanderer in tedious and fruitless mazes.