When Gorky was a child, his family was very poor, and he had no choice but to work as an apprentice in a tailor shop.

In the tailor shop, little Gorky was working while trying to study. The boss ordered a copy of "Russian Newspaper", and little Gorky secretly read the newspaper while the boss was away.

Once, little Gorky borrowed a novel from a neighbor's house and read it with relish by the moonlight by the window after his boss fell asleep at night. After a while, the moon hid behind the clouds. Little Gorky was so interested that he couldn't stop, so he lit a small oil lamp and continued to watch. After a while, the boss woke up. He saw little Gao Erku reading a thick book fascinatedly under the oil lamp. He couldn't help but said angrily: "What are you looking at? You have almost used up my farmer's lamp oil." !” The boss’s wife also woke up and pounced on little Gorky like a she-wolf.

Little Gorky couldn't bear it anymore. He left the tailor shop without saying a word and without looking back.

Little Gower came to the Volga River with his luggage on his back. He looked at the sparkling Volga River and felt a little sad in his heart. But soon he saw the hope of life again, because he was on a ship. I met an amiable fat chef on the ship and became the fat chef's dishwashing boy. What surprised little Gorky even more was that the fat chef was also a book lover. He had a box full of books and was willing to let little Gorky read them at will. Little Gorky was very happy. He read eagerly whenever he had free time, and sometimes discussed various issues in the book with the fat chef.

Little Gorky was thinking while reading, and understood many truths in the world from a large number of books. A large amount of reading also provided rich nourishment for his future literary creation, making him eventually become a great Soviet writer.

Gorky was born on March 14, 1868 in Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River in Russia. His father is the son of a soldier, and his mother is the daughter of a dye house owner. My grandfather once served as an army officer, but was demoted by Tsar Nicholas I for brutally abusing his subordinates. My grandfather was so strict with my father that my father ran away from home five times, and the last escape was successful. After escaping, he worked successively as a carpenter, a manager of a shipping company office, a worker who decorated indoor curtains and papered wallpapers, etc. He was a smart, kind and very pleasant person. Later he contracted cholera and died when Gorky was 3 years old. After his father died, Gorky lived with his mother at his grandfather's house. He spent his childhood in his grandfather's home, which was full of philistine sentiments. During this period, my mother remarried and died of tuberculosis a few years later, and my grandfather went bankrupt.

The 11-year-old Gorky was forced to live in the world and began to make a living independently. He picked rags, worked as an apprentice and a handyman, suffered bullying and abuse, and experienced the suffering and hardships of life. He only attended elementary school for three years, but he loved reading. He took advantage of every opportunity to read whatever books he could find and studied hard on his own.

In 1884, he came to Luoshan with the intention of going to university, but he failed to do so and finished his social university at the bottom of society. He has worked as a dock porter, baker, grocery store clerk, gardener and night watchman. At the same time, he got acquainted with advanced populist intellectuals and Marxist writings, further realized the ugliness of reality and the suffering of the people, and gradually established his determination to reform society.

In 1888-1889 and 1891-1892, Gorky traveled to Russia twice in order to understand the motherland and its people. It ran from Nizhny to Tsaritsyn, through the Don River region, Ukraine, to Bessarabia, and from there along the southern coast of Crimea to Kuban, and then to the Black Sea. The journey and arduous experiences broadened Gorky's horizons, tempered his will, accumulated rich knowledge and life materials, and inspired him to have a strong desire to engage in literary creation.