Short answers, pulled from the story.
Maxim Gorky was born on the 16th of March 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod. He grew up as an orphan after his father died when he was very young, and a maternal grandmother raised him until he ran away from home in 1880.
Alexei Peshkov adopted the name Maxim Gorky in 1892 because it means bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a determination to speak the truth. This name change marked the beginning of his career as a writer who published works like Makar Chudra in the newspaper Kavkaz.
From 1906 to 1913, Maxim Gorky lived on the island of Capri in southern Italy partly for health reasons and partly to escape the repressive atmosphere in Russia. During this period, he developed a philosophy called God-Building alongside Anatoly Lunacharsky and Alexander Bogdanov while Lenin ridiculed the idea.
Maxim Gorky died from pneumonia in June 1936 after spending his final days under unannounced house arrest near Moscow. Several historians claim that both he and his son were poisoned by NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda on orders from Stalin using substances developed at a special laboratory with assistance from Kremlin doctors Pletnyov and Lev Levin.
Maxim Gorky wrote famous early short stories such as Chelkash and Old Izergil along with the play The Lower Depths which appeared in 1902. His fictional autobiographical trilogy My Childhood, In the World, and My Universities ran from 1913 to 1923, though some critics consider The Life of Klim Samgin his masterpiece despite its limited availability in the West.