Career Stepan Skitalets

skitalets playing gusli maxim gorky.

in 1898 met maxim gorky, fame on rise, , 2 became close friends. meeting deciding point of young life.

skitalets came moscow gorky joined sreda, literary group founded writer nikolay teleshov, included many of russia s popular authors , artists, such leonid andreyev, ivan bunin, fyodor chaliapin, gorky and, when in town, anton chekhov. in 1902 skitalets s first collection of stories , poems published gorky s company znanie (knowledge).

during time published poetry, short stories, , novellas, of read , discussed among friends in sreda. 1 of songs, first sang @ meeting of sreda, included in beginning of second act of gorky s play lower depths. song begins lines: sun rises , sets / prison dark, dark. author of popular folk song stepan razin.

skitalets s revolutionary poetry praised vladimir lenin among others. 1 of revolutionary poems, recited @ charity event in 1902, can found on list of russian language poets. reading of poem , several others caused uproar of cheers , shouts, leading event being broken police, , arrest of leonid andreyev, d been event s organizer. andreyev acquitted in court. skitalets arrested revolutionary activities in 1888, 1901 (with gorky in nizhny novgorod), 1902 , 1905. continued publishing works separately , in collected editions through years leading world war , russian revolution of 1917.