Gorky befriended many revolutionaries and became Lenin's personal friend after they met in 1902.

File: Gorky, Piatnitsky and Skitalets. jpg | Maxim Gorky, Konstantin Piatnitsky and Stepan Skitalets, 1902

When the actors of the Moscow Arts Theatre were preparing the play for its first run in 1902, Maxim Gorky supplied them with photographs of the Nizhny Novgorod underclass taken by the famous local photographer, Maxim Dmitriev ( Максим Дмитриев ), to help with the realism of the acting and costumes.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

One Test was held at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1902.

Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker Ernest Renan, shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany in 1902.

The highest temperature ever recorded was 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ) in Talladega county in 1902.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A large geode, or " amethyst-grotto ", from near Santa Cruz in southern Brazil was presented at the 1902 exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

When he came of age in 1902, the week of his majority was marked by festivities, bullfights, balls and receptions throughout Spain.

It was created by a deed which he signed on June 7, 1901, and it was incorporated by Royal Charter on August 21, 1902.

Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902.

The first fully armored one was the " Motor War Car " designed by Vickers in England in 1902.

His daughter, Albine, was born on December 4, 1902.

Besides fulfilling other journalistic engagements, Beckett was on the staff of Punch from 1874 to 1902, edited the Sunday Times 1891-1895, and the Naval and Military Magazine in 1896.

By 1902, however, due to the Governor of ` Akka being supportive of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, the situation was greatly eased ; while pilgrims were able to once again visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, he was confined to the city.

From 1902 to 1904, in addition to the building of the Shrine of the Báb that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was directing, he started to put into execution two different projects ; the restoration of the House of the Báb in Shiraz, Iran and the construction of the first Bahá ' í House of Worship in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.

On 2 October 1902 The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published, and was an immediate success.

The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as a new education bill and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs.

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

In 1902, under Leo XIII, a commission under the presidency of Monsignor Louis Duchesne was appointed to consider the Breviary, the Missal, the Pontifical and the Ritual.

However, Sierra made efforts to perpetuate himself in office after refusing to step down after a new president was elected in 1902 and would be overthrown by Manuel Bonilla in 1903.

* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 – 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush

He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902. Putnam's former house in Washington, D. C.

He began his political career as a precinct captain and in 1902 was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives.

He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902.

Reid was elected President of the Board, a position he held until his death in 1902.

Lyapunov returned to Saint Petersburg in 1902, after being elected acting member of the Academy of Science as well as ordinary professor in the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of the university.

On 6 April 1902 he was elected senator for the Var, district of Draguignan, although he had previously called for the suppression of the Senate, as he considered it a strong-house of conservatism.

* Boniface Natter elected 19 November 1902.

Townspeople elected to name the town " Lafe " in honor of the new postmaster and the name was officially changed on 21 May 1902.

On a local level, Essex Fells has elected a Republican mayor in every vote held since becoming a borough in 1902.

The residents of Shaniko voted to incorporate Shaniko and elected a mayor, F. T. Hurlbert, and other city officials on January 1, 1902.

When Gray County was organized on May 27, 1902, Lefors was elected county seat.

He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1888, was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902, and was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1904 and of the Aristotelian Society from 1914-15.

In 1902 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet from Kōchi Prefecture.

In 1902 and 1903 he was elected president of the chamber.

In June 1898, he was elected president of the chamber and was re-elected in 1901, but rejected in 1902.

Following Lord Kimberley's death in 1902, Spencer was elected Liberal leader in the House of Lords.

He retained his place on the foundation until 1902, when on the day before his 83rd birthday, he was elected to the mastership.

He was elected deputy for Achaea in 1902 and distinguished himself as an orator and a member of the so-called " Japanese Group " that opposed the Georgios Theotokis government in 1906-1908.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 11 December 1902 and handed over office on 31 December 1917.

He was elected to the Federal Council on December 13, 1888 and died in office on October 22, 1902.

William L. Carpenter, a jurist who was elected to the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan in 1894, and member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1902 until 1904.

Owing, once again, to his being elected by the state legislature, Nelson's campaign for reelection in 1902 actually started with the election for the Minnesota state legislature in 1900.