Gorky, who wanted to fly. Gushchina E.

Alyosha’s boy looks out the window. Behind glass is an endless sky. Seagulls are worn, steamboats fly along the Volga. I wish he to fly away from this dark, terrible house! But, it seems, go to the high bank of the river, open your hands - and fly, fly from here. So, when the grandfather invites Alyosha “go to people”, he does not agree.

He will go to the birds!

his flights begin. Years later, Alyosha is catching with a chiya, it carries baskets with rolls in which secret notes flutter back and forth, he is going to knock out his spirit-just to fly away! Wandering around Russia, he climbs highly, to the mountains of the Caucasus, and lowers low-nizko, to city slums. And the life of all whom he meets seems so unimaginably bitter that he decides: a person needs wings (and Alyosha himself is a pseudonym).

This is a story of the incredible take-off of Maxim Gorky, a real rock star whose style of clothing was copied and with whose portrait they sold sweets. This is a story about the time when people dreamed of high, equality and justice, and how the fall from this height turned out to be fatal. This is the history of the writer from sky -high circulations to indifference today.

And it begins with the first flight.