In the book of memoirs of Maxim Gorky - Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov (1868-1936), - one of the most famous writers of the XX century, included his "Notes from the Diary" (a truly unique series of Russian characters - from an intellectual to a philosophizing tramp, from a revolutionary to an ardent monarchist), famous literary portraits of A.P. Chekhov, L.N. Tolstoy, L.N. Andreev, V.G. Korolenko, S.A. Esenin, S.T. Morozov, V.I. Lenin (an essay on him is published in the first edition - without later layers of "textbook gloss"), as well as the chronicle of the October Revolution "Untimely Thoughts," which thundered at one time.