Aleksei Maksimovich Peskov, "Maksim Gorki" (Russian Empire 1868 - USSR 1936) is one of the great figures of Russian literature. Orphaned from an early age, during his youth he toured Russia performing all kinds of jobs, something that allowed him to acquire a particular understanding of the spirit of his time and his country. Later, works such as The Lower Depths or The Mother would make him the “bitter” spokesperson for the new ideas that boiled in the depths of Russian society. Gorky maintained a strange relationship with the power structures of the new USSR, which led him from the activism of his youth, to exile in Capri and, finally, to return "triumphantly" to the homeland, his last golden cage from which I could never escape.