Echoing a story Luka told earlier about a man who refused to accept that there was no land of the virtuous, Actor hangs himself at the end of another play by this author, which takes its name from the down-and-outs living in a dross house basement that are its cast.
In one work by this author, Yulia complains about her teachers leering at her until she blushed, which "delighted themÂ… like gluttons outside a delicatessen", while Olga complains constantly about her sick children. That work by this author ends after Ryumin's failed suicide, with Varvara leaving her husband Bassov with her brother Vlass as he goes to work with Dvoetochie to found new schools. In addition to Summerfolk, this author wrote a play in which a drunken Yegor beats his wife and leads a lynch mob that tries to kill first a doctor and then the chemist Protassov during a cholera epidemic. Echoing a story Luka told earlier about a man who refused to accept that there was no land of the virtuous, Actor hangs himself at the end of another play by this author, which takes its name from the down-and-outs living in a dross house basement that are its cast. For 10 points, name this "bitter" Russian playwright of Children of the Sun and The Lower Depths. 
In one work by this author, Yulia complains about her teachers leering at her until she blushed, which "delighted themÂ… like gluttons outside a delicatessen", while Olga complains constantly about her sick children.
Maxim Gorky [or Alexei Maximovich Peshkov] 