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Why did Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Korolenko resign from the Russian Academy of Sciences?
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky.
Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Korolenko resigned from the Russian Academy of Sciences in protest after the institution withdrew the election of Maxim Gorky as a member.
Although Gorky had been elected to the academy in 1902, his membership was revoked shortly thereafter for political reasons. This act of censorship prompted both Chekhov and V.G. Korolenko to resign their own positions in the academy in solidarity with Gorky.1