Word: novgorod
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...tough kid from the Volga town of Nizhni Novgorod-it now bears his name-Gorky worked the river steamboats, reading Tom Jones even as he learned to steal. He hung out with gypsies, slung bales with stevedores, worked with men who toiled "like blind worms" in a basement bakery. "I saw that life was crisscrossed with theft," he wrote, "like an old coat with grey threads." Nothing worked right: even when he tried suicide, he succeeded only in shooting himself through the lung...