Mother

The basis of the novel «Mother» (1906), one of the most famous works of Maxim Gorky, was the mass demonstration of workers on May 1, 1902, in the city of Sormovo. Real events are reflected in an exciting plot built around acute political struggle. Secret meetings, searches, arrests, the selfless heroism of the main character, revolutionary Pavel Vlasov, convey a complex, dramatic situation on the eve of the first Russian revolution. The central figure in the novel — Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the mother of the main character, is one of the brightest and most touching characters in Russian literature, a symbol of boundless love and patience.