Editing Maxim Gorky (section)

===Death===
[[File:Kremlin Wall Necropolis - Gorky, Maxim 04.jpg|thumb|Grave of Maxim Gorky in the [[Kremlin Wall Necropolis]]]]
With the increase of [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] repression and especially after the assassination of [[Sergei Kirov]] in December 1934, Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest in his house near Moscow in [[Gorki{{nbh}}10]] (the name of the place is a completely different word in Russian unrelated to his surname). His long-serving secretary [[Pyotr Kryuchkov]] had been recruited by Yagoda as a paid informer.{{sfn |McSmith |2015 |p=91}} Before his death from a lingering illness in June 1936, he was visited at home by Stalin, Yagoda, and other leading communists, and by [[Moura Budberg]], who had chosen not to return to the USSR with him but was permitted to stay for his funeral.

The sudden death of Gorky's son Maxim Peshkov in May 1934 was followed by the death of Maxim Gorky himself in June 1936 from pneumonia. Speculation has long surrounded the circumstances of his death. Stalin and [[Vyacheslav Molotov|Molotov]] were among those who carried Gorky's urn during the funeral. During the [[Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites"|Bukharin trial in 1938]] (last of the three [[Moscow Trials]]), one of the charges was that Gorky was killed by [[Genrikh Yagoda|Yagoda]]'s [[NKVD]] agents.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vyshinsky|first=Andrey|date=April 1938|title=The Treason Case Summed Up|url=http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/02/the.treason.case.18feb07.pdff4mrvk.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305141033/http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/02/the.treason.case.18feb07.pdff4mrvk.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2009|access-date=10 February 2022|website=neworleans.indymedia.org|quote=From Soviet Russia Today, April 1938 Vol. 7 No. 2. Transcribed by Red Flag Magazine.}}</ref>

According to several historians, Gorky and his son were poisoned by NKVD chief [[Genrikh Yagoda]] on the orders from Stalin and possibly with the assistance of "Kremlin's doctors" [[Dmitry Pletnyov (doctor)|Pletnyov]] and [[Lev Levin]] using substances developed at [[Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services|a special NKVD laboratory in Moscow]].<ref>[[Yuri Felshtinsky]] and [[Vladimir Pribylovsky]], ''The Corporation. Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin'', {{ISBN|1-59403-246-7}}, Encounter Books; 25 February 2009, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120225041103/http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/thecorporation/ description], pages 442-443.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brackman |first1=Roman |title=The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life |date=23 November 2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-75840-0 |page=217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PY2RAgAAQBAJ&dq=Maxim+Gorky+poisoned+stalin&pg=PA217 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaksberg |first1=Arkadi |title=The Murder of Maxim Gorky: A Secret Execution |date=15 December 2006 |publisher=Enigma Books |isbn=978-1-936274-92-5 |pages=300–429 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IU0ukrgeFgC&dq=maxim+gorky+poisoned+candies&pg=RA1-PT253 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Knight |first1=Amy |title=Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder |date=1 February 2018 |publisher=Biteback Publishing |isbn=978-1-78590-360-1 |pages=1–384 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5hIDwAAQBAJ&dq=Vaksberg+Gorky+poisoned&pg=PT19 }}</ref>