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I also love this picture, a story about it is:

It is interesting that Stalin himself, intending to praise the writer does not mention either "at the bottom" or "Mother" or some or other of the major works of Gorky, and raised to heaven his youthful poem-story "Girl and Death" written in 1892 and published in July 1917 in the same newspaper "New Life", which printed anti-Bolshevik article Gorky, which caused outrage in Stalin.
And on Oct. 11, 1931 he appreciates the poem: "This thing is stronger than Goethe's Faust (love defeats death )».

so unreasonably eulogy unpretentious tale only the most dogmatic gorkovedy could take seriously. But I took it seriously Gorky himself?
Here is what a family tradition a son close to the author of the poem writer Vsevolod Ivanov, Vyacheslav Ivanov. A week before departure Gorky in Italy at his home were Stalin and Voroshilov. They "have written their resolution to his tale" The Girl and Death ". My father, who spoke about this episode with Gorky, argued strongly that Gorky was offended. Stalin and Voroshilov were drunk and fooling.
Verify that the certificate is not possible, but it seems quite likely. In such a withdrawal master of the Kremlin sees a mockery of his "closest friend", whom he assisted in many ways forced the greatest kindness, placed next to each other, but never fully trusted, and not too fond of his work.

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At these findings suggests the book from the library of Stalin, which he read with extraordinary scrutiny - Bitter M. "Poems". M., 1951.
You can imagine how Stalin saw a picture of Gorky's tales with his own inscription, she praise her. Then he picks up a blue pencil and three crosses this photograph. Then turns the page and cross out the photo on the reverse side.
There is a book and a certain picture (or is it the painting?), Which depicted Stalin and Voroshilov in the office of Gorky's Little Nikita, when the writer reads it "girl and death. Ideological clerks gave this action with the reading of fairy tales and the words of the great leader of some great historical significance. Genius wrote on genius.
In this picture book Stalin crossed criss-cross with a blue pencil.
It is difficult to understand what motivated Stalin, when he crossed a number of photographs and other works of Gorky's "Poems". Did he express the undercurrent of negative attitudes poetic experience of the proletarian classic? Or felt a certain awkwardness when considered placed in a collection of photos?

I have before heard of this film Gorky's poem is not read or did not remember. And after read.