A very interesting figure in the history of Russia, Maxim Gorky. Why? The fact that he was the only Russian intellectual who was not shot by Trotsky's men after 1917. Why was Gorky the last of the Mogikans and why wasn't he shot? Because all his life Gorky was a famous fighter against anti-Semitism in Russia. The Jewish website http://www.sem40.ru has a large article from the Jewish magazine "Lekhaim" № 31-01-2005, about Maxim Gorky called "Bitter and the Jews", where he assigns him the title of an outstanding fighter against anti-Semitism.
