Detstvo. V liudiakh. Moi universitety - Gor'kii Maksim

Maxim Gorky's autobiographical trilogy Childhood. In people. My Universities," on which he worked for 10 years, is one of the most significant works of Russian realistic literature of the 20th century. The writer himself called it "the truth that must be known to the root, to root it out of the memory, from the soul of man, from the whole life of ours, heavy and shameful."
In front of the reader of the trilogy literally comes to life provincial Russia of the late 19th - early 20th century, with its merchant courts and working suburbs, Volga ports, a series of colorful characters and an infinite depth of understanding of the very soul of the Russian people, forever teetering on the line between the beautiful and the ugly, between crime and holiness.