Luke McKernan's Picturegoing website reproduces the Gorky text, citing its source as ‘I.M. Pacatus’ (Maxim Gorky), Nizhegorodski listok, 4 July 1896, translated (by Leda Swan) and reproduced in Jay Leyda, Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960), pp. 407-409. See https://picturegoing.com/?p=230.
