Children of the Sun (Russian: Дети солнца, romanized: Deti solntsa) is a 1905 play by Maxim Gorky, written while he was briefly imprisoned in Saint Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905.

It was nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but was universally understood to relate to contemporary events.

Given conditions in the city, the atmosphere was so tense that the audience began to panic in response to the mob noises in Act III.

The title refers to the privileged intellectual elite of Russia, epitomised by Protassoff, high-minded and idealistic, but basically unaware of what is going on around them in the lower depths.

It is set during an 1862 cholera epidemic in Russia in which fear drove people to mob action.