Children of the Sun | |
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Written by | Maxim Gorky |
Date premiered | 12 October 1905 |
Place premiered | Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
Original language | Russian |
Children of the Sun (Russian: Дети солнца, romanized: Deti solntsa) is a 1905 play by Maxim Gorky, written while he was briefly imprisoned in Saint Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.
Gorky appears to have written the play chiefly during the last eight days of his imprisonment, before his February 2, 1905 release, in response to the international protests over the imprisonment of such a prominent writer. It was nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but was universally understood to relate to contemporary events.