Armenian-born American painter considered a transitional figure between surrealism and abstract expressionism. His works include The Liver Is the Cock's Comb (1944).
also Gorki, Maksim also Maxim Pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov. 1868-1936.
Russian writer who supported the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and helped develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic. His works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1925-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.