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Gorky Gorky
Gorky or Gorky Leninskoye , suburb of Moscow, central European Russia. The country home of Lenin, who died there, is now a memorial museum.... Read more
Grand Gorky Theatre Grand Gorky Theatre
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Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky , c.1900-48, American painter, b. Armenia as Vosdanig Adoian. He escaped the Turkish slaughter of Armenians, emigrated to the United States in 1920, studied at Boston's New School of Design, and moved to New York City in 1925. An extraordinarily fluid draftsman inspired by Ingres , ... Read more
New York School New York School
New York School. Term applied to the innovatory painters, especially the Abstract Expressionists, who worked in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and whose critical and financial success helped the city to replace Paris as the world's leading centre of avant-garde art. An exhibition staged by the Los... Read more
Maxim Gorky Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky [Rus.,=Maxim the Bitter], pseud. of Aleksey Maximovich Pyeshkov, 1868-1936, Russian writer, b. Nizhny Novgorod (named Gorky, 1932-91). Gorky is considered the father of Soviet literature and the founder of the doctrine of socialist realism . Instilled by his grandmother with a... Read more
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev , 1871-1919, Russian writer. Andreyev's early stories were realistic studies of everyday life. Gorky was attracted by the note of social protest in his work and used his influence to obtain publication of Andreyev's first volume of short stories. After an enormous... Read more
Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov
Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov 1921-89, Soviet nuclear physicist and human-rights advocate; first Soviet citizen to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (1975). From 1948 to 1956 he helped to develop the USSR's hydrogen bomb. In the 1960s he became a critic of the arms race and of Soviet repression. In... Read more
Anatoli Vasilyevich Lunacharsky Anatoli Vasilyevich Lunacharsky
Anatoli Vasilyevich Lunacharsky , 1875-1933, Russian revolutionary, dramatist, and critic. He began his revolutionary career in 1892 and joined the Bolshevik party when it appeared, forming with Gorky and Bogdanov the left wing of the group, which was in opposition to Lenin . Later he was Lenin's... Read more
Matta Matta
Matta (Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren) , 1911?-2002, Chilean painter who left his native country for Paris (1935) and thereafter worked in Europe and the United States, b. Santiago. Matta was an exponent of surrealism in the group around André Breton in the late 1930s.... Read more
Mat Mat
MAT (Mother) USSR, 1926 Director:Vsevolod I. Pudovkin Production:Mezhrabpom-Russ.; black and white, 35mm, silent; running time: about 90 minutes; length: 1800 meters, or 5906 feet. Released 11 October 1926. Re-released 1935, with musical ... Read more

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