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Who raised Maxim Gorky after his mother remarried?
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After his mother remarried, Maxim Gorky was raised by his maternal grandparents in Nizhny Novgorod. His grandfather, a dyer, treated him harshly, while his grandmother provided him with the majority of the kindness he experienced during his childhood.1