Roles in plays at the Academic Theatre named after Mossovet, director Yuri Zavadski 
“Somov and others”, (first Orlova’s appearance– 1953). A play of a playwright Maxim Gorky. Director – Irina Anisimova-Vulf. Lyubov Orlova plays a part of Lidia.
Gorky, Maxim [1868-1936]: Russian writer. Pen name of Alexei Peshkov. Born in Nizhny- Novgorod (renamed Gorky , 1932 in his honour) he was exiled (1906-13) for his revolutionary principles. His work, which include the play The Lower Depths (1902) and the recollections My Childhood (1913), combine realism with faith in the potential of the industrial proletariat.
Maxim Gorky, born March 16 [March 28, New Style], 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
died June 14, 1936 also spelled Maxim Gorki, pseudonym of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths.
In 1921, Gorky again went abroad, seeking treatment for his tuberculosis in Germany and Czechoslovakia . He then settled down in Sorrento , Italy . He worked as editor of Dialogue and produced the final installment of his autobiography, My Universities, and the novel The Artamonov Business.
In 1928, amid great public fanfare, Gorky returned to the Soviet Union . He admitted that his position concerning the timing of the October Revolution has been mistaken and that he had underestimated the creative forces of the proletariate in revolution. He was generous in his praise of Stalin, collectivization, and Soviet constrcution projects, including the Belomorsky Canal . He settled down in Moscow and set to writing dramas. He produced the play Somov and Others (1931). This work takes as its theme the sabotage of Soviet industry by engineers; GPU agents show up in the end to arrest the evil engineers.
