The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute () is an institution of higher education in

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, Russia. It is located at 25

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in central Moscow.

History

The institute was founded in 1933 on the initiative of

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

, a writer, founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. It received its current name at Gorky's death in 1936. The institute has been at the same location, not far from

Pushkin Square Pushkinskaya Square or Pushkin Square () is a pedestrian open space in the Tverskoy District in central Moscow. Historically, it was known as Strastnaya Square () before being renamed for Alexander Pushkin in 1937. It is located at the juncti ...

, for more than seventy years, in a complex of historic buildings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. The main building at 25

was the birthplace of

Alexander Herzen Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (; ) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudo ...

and frequented by well-known writers of the 19th century, including

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

, Vissarion Belinsky, Pyotr Chaadayev,

Aleksey Khomyakov Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (; – ) was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist. He co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireyevsky, and he became one of its most distinguished theoreticians. His son Nikol ...

, and Yevgeny Baratynsky. In the 1920s it housed various writers' organizations and a literary museum. It also provided accommodations for writers, including Andrei Platonov, Vsevolod Ivanov,

Osip Mandelstam Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (, ; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school. Osip Mandelstam was arrested during the repressions of the 1930s and sent into internal exile wi ...

, and

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( ; rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel ''The M ...

used it as the model for "Griboyedov House" in ''

The Master and Margarita ''The Master and Margarita'' () is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. A censored version, with several chapters cut by editors, was published posthumously in ''Moscow (magazine), Moscow'' magazine in ...

''.

Curriculum

The institute's curriculum includes courses in the humanities and social sciences and seminars on a variety of literary genres, including prose, poetry, drama, children's literature, literary criticism, writing for the popular press, and literary translation. It has graduate and doctoral programs and a standing committee for doctoral and candidate dissertation defenses. The institute offers a two-year program of Advanced Literary Courses for highly qualified students, and its Literary Institute oversees an Advanced Literary Translation School, as well as courses in Editing, Copyediting and Foreign Languages. It also has a high school and offers preparatory courses for applicants to the Literary Institute.

Notable alumni

Politics

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(President of

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) * Nambaryn Enkhbayar (President of

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2005—2009)

Poets

* Alexander Galich (poet, singer-songwriter) * Bella Akhmadulina (poet) * Boris Golovin (poet, singer-songwriter) * Borys Bilash (poet, writer) * Drago Siliqi (writer, literary critic, publisher) * Fazu Aliyeva (poet) * Halima Xudoyberdiyeva (People's Poet of Uzbekistan) *

Hovhannes Shiraz Hovhannes Shiraz (; April 27, 1914 – March 24, 1984) was an Armenians, Armenian poet. Biography Shiraz was born Onik Tadevosi Karapetyan in the city of Alexandropol, then part of the Russian Empire (now Gyumri, Armenia). His mother, Astghik ...

(poet) * Jabir Novruz (National Poet of

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) * Nikolay Rubtsov (poet) * Rasul Gamzatov (poet) *

Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (; 18 July 1933 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor, university professor, and director of several films. Biography Early lif ...

(poet, singer-songwriter, novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter) * Yulia Drunina (poet, writer) * Hasab al-Shaikh Ja'far (poet)

Writers

* Anatoli Kim (writer) * Chinghiz Aitmatov (novelist) * Fatmir Gjata (writer, journalist) * Fazil Iskander (novelist) * Irina Bogatyryova (writer) *

Ismail Kadare Ismail Kadare (; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel ...

(novelist, poet, essayist) * Aigul Kemelbayeva (writer) * Jaroslav Melnik (writer) * Svetlana Vasilenko (writer, poet) *

Konstantin Simonov Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov (, – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent,Константин Михайлович Симонов // " Литературна� ...

(writer) *

Maria Alyokhina Maria "Masha" Vladimirovna Alyokhina (; born 6 June 1988) is a Russian political activist. She is a member of the Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot. Early life and education Maria Vladimirovna Al ...

(writer, musician, activist) * Maria Arbatova (writer, feminist, politician) * Oksana Vasyakina (writer) * Oleg Khafizov (writer) * Oleg Pavlov (writer) *

Vasily Belov Vasily Ivanovich Belov (; 23 October 1932 – 4 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian writer, poet and dramatist, who published more than sixty books which sold (as of 1998) seven million copies. A prominent member of the influential 1970s–198 ...

(writer) * Viktor Astafyev (novelist) * Viktor Pelevin (novelist) *

Yuri Bondarev Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise ''Liberation'' (1968–71). Biography Bondarev took part ...

(writer) * Yuri Kazakov (writer) * Aleksandr Skorobogatov (writer) *

Yury Trifonov Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Childhood and family Trifonov w ...

(writer) * Antonina Koptiaeva (novelist) * Grigory Baklanov (novelist) * Vladimir Karpov (novelist) * Boris Yampolsky (writer)

Notes

References

*Holquist, Michael. ''Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World'', Second Edition. Routledge, 2002. *Holquist, Michael. “Introduction.” ''Speech Genres and Other Late Essays''. By Mikhail Bakhtin. Eds. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. ix-xxiii.

External links

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