Editing Maxim Gorky (section)

===Return to Russia===
[[File:Avel Enukidze Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky Red Square 1931.jpg|right|thumb|[[Avel Enukidze]], [[Joseph Stalin]] and Maxim Gorky celebrate the 10th anniversary of [[Red Sport International|Sportintern]]. Red Square, Moscow USSR. August 1931]]

Gorky's return from [[Kingdom of Italy#Fascist regime (1922–1943)|Fascist Italy]] was a major propaganda victory for the Soviets. He was decorated with the [[Order of Lenin]] and given a mansion (formerly belonging to the millionaire [[Pavel Ryabushinsky]], which was for many years the [[Gorky Museum]]) in Moscow and a [[dacha]] in the suburbs. The city of Nizhny Novgorod, and the surrounding province were renamed Gorky.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ireland |first=Corydon |date=2008-05-15 |title=Reminiscences of Maxim Gorky |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/reminiscences-of-maxim-gorky/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Gorky Park (Moscow)|Moscow's main park]], and one of the central Moscow streets, Tverskaya, were renamed in his honour, as was the [[Moscow Art Theatre]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ireland |first=Corydon |date=2008-05-15 |title=Reminiscences of Maxim Gorky |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/reminiscences-of-maxim-gorky/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> The largest fixed-wing aircraft in the world in the mid-1930s, the [[Tupolev ANT-20]] was named ''Maxim Gorky'' in his honour.

He was also appointed President of the [[Union of Soviet Writers]], founded in 1932, to coincide with his return to the USSR. On 11 October 1931 Gorky read his fairy tale poem "[[A Girl and Death]]" (which he wrote in 1892) to his visitors [[Joseph Stalin]], [[Kliment Voroshilov]] and [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], an event that was later depicted by {{ill|Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko|ru|Яр-Кравченко, Анатолий Никифорович}} in his painting. On that same day Stalin left his autograph on the last page of this work by Gorky: "This piece is stronger than [[Goethe's Faust|Goethe's ''Faust'']] (love defeats death)".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.maximgorkiy.narod.ru/PHOTOS/6/stalin.jpg |title=Scan of the page from "A Girl And Death" with autograph by Stalin |access-date=21 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907055526/http://www.maximgorkiy.narod.ru/PHOTOS/6/stalin.jpg |archive-date=7 September 2012 }}</ref> Voroshilov also left a "resolution": "I am illiterate, but I think that Comrade Stalin more than correctly defined the meaning of A. Gorky's poems. On my own behalf, I will say: I love M. Gorky as my and my class of writer, who correctly defined our forward movement."{{cn|date=March 2025}}

As [[Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)|Vyacheslav Ivanov]] remembers, Gorky was very upset:
{{blockquote|They wrote their resolution on his fairy tale "A Girl and Death". [[Vsevolod Ivanov|My father]], who spoke about this episode with Gorky, insisted emphatically that Gorky was offended. Stalin and Voroshilov were drunk and fooling around.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Горький: страсти по Максиму|last=Basinsky|first=Pavel|publisher=АСТ}}</ref>
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