“Dapatkah kau rasakan betapa aku mencintaimu? Aku tidak pernah bisa mengalami begitu banyak kegembiraan, sebanyak seperti yang aku rasakan ketika denganmu. Ini sungguh benar: percayalah! Tidak pernah aku mencintai dengan begitu penuh rasa kasih, dengan begitu penuh kelembutan, juga dengan begitu senang hati. Dengan perasaan takjub, bersamamu, aku merasa baik-baik saja...”
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary aesthetic; his works include The Life of Klim Samgin (1927-1936), an unfinished cycle of novels.
This Soviet author founded the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. People also nominated him five times for the Nobel Prize in literature. From 1906 to 1913 and from 1921 to 1929, he lived abroad, mostly in Capri, Italy; after his return to the Soviet Union, he accepted the cultural policies of the time.