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Encyclopedia > Leninskie Gorki

Leninskie Gorki (Cyrillic: Горки Ленинские) is a village in the Leninsky district of Moscow Oblast, 35 km south of Moscow, Russia.


Before the Russian Revolution, it was called Gorki and was owned by the Moscow head Reinbot.


Since September 1918, Vladimir Lenin used to rest there. It is the place where he died. After Lenin's death, Gorki was renamed to Leninskie Gorki.


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Day Trips in Moscow - Gorki Leninskie - WayToRussia.Net Guide to Moscow, Russia (585 words)
Gorki Leninskie is probably only worth visiting for those who have a particular interest in Lenin.
Gorki Leninskie was opened as a museum almost 25 years after his death on New Years Day 1949.
On the final part of the tour you are taken to the garage and shown Lenin’s specially-made Rolls Royce car, which is probably the highlight of the whole place.
Gorky Maxim (623 words)
Born of the people, and having experienced in his own person their sufferings and their misery, he was enabled by his extraordinary genius to voice their grievances and their aspirations for a better life as no academic could.
Maxim Gorky - Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (–June 14, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
Children of the Sun (Gorky) - Children of the Sun (original Russian title Дети солнца, Deti Solntsa) is a 1905 play by Maxim Gorky, written while he was briefly imprisoned in Saint Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.
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