Maxim Gorky MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Maxim Gorky? Maxim Gorky is an ISTJ personality type in MBTI, 1w9 - sx/so - 146 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, LSI in Socionics.
You can argue all you want about Socionics functions vs MBTI functions and irrational/rational, but the systems don't match and I don't care. I have made a similar argument for Chekhov, usually typed as INTP or INFP or even INTJ, but Si dominance is clear as day in his work and so, too, is Gorky. From "My Childhood" - "Silence reigned; and any sound, such as the fluttering or birds or the rustling of fallen leaves, struck one as unnaturally loud, and caused a shuddering start, which soon does away into that torpid stillness which seemed to encompass the earth and cast a spell over the heart. In such moments as these are both thoughts of a peculiar purity - ethereal thoughts, thin, transparent as a cob-web, incapable of being expressed in words. They come and go quickly, like falling stars, kindling a flame of sorrow in the soul, soothing and disturbing it at the same time, and the soul is, as it were, on fire and being plastic, receives an impression which lasts for all time." If anything about introverted sensing is true, this is the description. He writes in great detail about memories of specific senses. He's clearly LSI. ISTJ is correct.
Biography
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim Gorky (Russian: Макси́м Го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Twenty-six Men and a Girl (1899), The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901), My Childhood (1913–1914), Mother (1906), Summerfolk (1904) and Children of the Sun (1905). He had an association with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov; Gorky would later mention them in his memoirs.
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