173. MANUSCRIPT. HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM MAXIM GORKIJ ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF HIS WORKS INTO SWEDISH.

Gorky, Maxim, Russian writer, (pseudonym of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov), (1868-1936.) A handwritten signed letter in Cyrillic, undated, comprising 12 lines of ink on an A 4 page to a R. Lindquist. “Gracious Lord! The right to translate my works into Swedish has been handed over by me to Mr. August Scholz in Berlin, and you must ask him for permission to translate. I am sending the portraits. Andrejev also hands over the right to translate his European fairy tales to Scholz. I shake your hand, and thank you for the good memory! A. Peskov.Maxim Gorky is considered the founder of social realism as a literary method. He was also a political activist and spent long periods outside Russia, partly for political reasons. During World War II, the Nazis in Germany burned his books at the stake.

The recipient of the letter must be the Finnish translator and writer Rafael Lindqvist, (1867–1952) who eventually also translated Maxim Gorky's works into Swedish. However, the translations were only published in Finland, as they were not considered to be up to the standard.
Provenance; Carl Harald Trolle, diplomat and bank director, (1886-1956).