In 1904 the great Russian (and then proto-Soviet) writer Maxim Gorky, in exile from Tsarist Russia, undertook a fundraising tour of the U.S. for the Bolsheviks along with his lover the great actress Maria Andreyevna. The venture was almost immediately aborted when New York newspapers learned that he was living “in sin” with his traveling companion. […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:33AM on May 30, 2015