The Quincy Daily Whig. Quincy, Ill, May 13, 1908.
Submitted by Debbie Lee
THE GORKY CLUB OUT OF BUSINESS
Social
Organization Sponsored by Revolutionist Given
Order
New York, May 12 – Club A.,
which is a group of serious men and women organized for the purpose of spreading
the socialistic doctrine and encouraging the revolutionary movement in Russia,
with headquarters in the four-story brick dwelling at No. 3 Fifth avenue, will
cease to exist after June 1. The lease of the building expires, and the eighteen
members will go their several ways, some to Europe and some to other cities of
this country.
It was to Club A.
Maxim Gorky, the Russian author and revolutionist retreated in April 1906, when
he was followed by Russian spies who had been sent from St. Petersburg to keep
track of his movements.
Gorky had been requested to leave the Hotel
Belleclaire, where he went on his arrival, and several other hotels where he
afterward sought refuge, because the "Mme Gorky" who was his traveling
companion, was not his wife but Mme Andrieva, the woman for whom he had deserted
his wife and children in Russia.
Gorky found no opposition to the peculiar views on the marriage relation held by
himself and Mme Andrieva among the Club A Socialists, The members gave a dinner
in his honor, to which several noted men were guests.
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