He also wrote sketches and stories portraying the disastrous fate of resettled peasants in Siberia.

Among its members were many of Russia's most popular writers, such as Maxim Gorky and the future Nobel Laureate Ivan Bunin.

Teleshov also participated in publishing the collections of the Znanie association, managed by Gorky.

[1][2] After 1917 he worked for the People's Commissariat for Education and other Soviet institutions.

During the Soviet years his most significant works included The Beginning of the End (1933), a novella of the Russian Revolution of 1905–07, the biographical story Maxim Gorky (1950s) and his creative memoirs A Writer Remembers (1925–43).