On October 25, 1889, in Nizhny Novgorod, by order of the district gendarmerie department, Alexei Pashkov (the future writer Maxim Gorky) was arrested. Six months earlier, he had completed his first "Bruce Trip". On his return to Nizhny, Peshkov got a job in a beer warehouse: in a damp cellar he washed and corked bottles, and lived together with his supervised men - A. and. Chakin and S. third. Somov. The arrest was an echo of the defeat of the revolutionary student movement in the Volga region: Pashkov was mainly suspected of having connections with unreliable people and sympathizing with opposition circles. For the young Pashkov, the months under police surveillance became an important life lesson - they sharpened his interest in social injustice and strengthened his desire to talk about the "lower classes" in society. Later, the writer described this episode in the article "The Time of Korolenko".

On October 25, 1889, in Nizhny Novgorod, by order of the district gendarmerie department, Alexei Pashkov (the future writer Maxim Gorky) was arrested. Six months earlier, he had completed his first "Bruce Trip". On his return to Nizhny, Peshkov got a job in a beer warehouse: in a damp cellar he washed and corked bottles, and lived together with his supervised men - A. and. Chakin and S. third. Somov. The arrest was an echo of the defeat of the revolutionary student movement in the Volga region: Pashkov was mainly suspected of having connections with unreliable people and sympathizing with opposition circles. For the young Pashkov, the months under police surveillance became an important life lesson - they sharpened his interest in social injustice and strengthened his desire to talk about the "lower classes" in society. Later, the writer described this episode in the article "The Time of Korolenko".