The novel My University is the last autobiographical trilogy completed by Gorky 1923 during his convalescence abroad, and the first important work he wrote after the October Revolution. The whole novel tells the story of 16-year-old hero, full of the desire to go to college, bidding farewell to his elderly grandmother and coming to Kazan city on the Volga River from Nizhny Novgorod. In Kazan, the hero didn't get what he wanted. He clearly realized that the harsh real life suddenly dashed his good wish to go to college because he wanted to face life directly. From then on, he had to work hard to survive, so he was hired to work and work around to make a living. The slums of Kazan, simple streets and ship docks, and dilapidated "paintings" became his residence. Since then, he has set foot on life.

My university, with its realistic style and strong ideological changes, expressed its abhorrence of czar rule, its high enthusiasm for revolution and its persistent pursuit of happiness and bright life.