Life of wonderful people list. Interesting facts about the book series "The Life of Remarkable People"

  • Although William Genrikhovich Fisher (1903-1971) is the most famous Soviet intelligence officer of the post-war period, not very many people know this name. After all, he, a resident of Soviet intelligence in the United States in 1948-1957, went down in history as Rudolf Ivanovich Abel. Most of the biography of the legendary scout is still classified as "top secret". This book opens the reader to the maximum possible information about the biography of William Fisher. While working on the book, the writer and journalist Nikolai Dolgopolov, winner of the All-Russian Historical and Literary Prize of Alexander Nevsky and the Prize of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, talked with many people who knew William Genrikhovich. The narrative includes unique memories of the daughters of William Fisher, his colleagues - the heroes of Russia Vladimir Barkovsky, Leontina and Morris Cohen, who have already passed away, as well as other famous intelligence officers, including some whose names are still "closed". The book is dedicated to 90th anniversary of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
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    • The book of the French scientist J.-P. Nerodo is dedicated to the heir and successor of Gaius Julius Caesar, the most famous ruler, the founder of the Roman Empire - Princeps Augustus (63 BC - 14 AD). Its peculiarity is that the author seeks to reveal not the image of a politician, but the secret of the personality of this mysterious person. He takes off the mask that the first emperor wore all his life, and he does it with purely French ease, exciting and free. Nerodo thoroughly studied all the sources relating to the life of Gaius Octavius ​​- Caesar Octavian - Augustus, and looked into the inner world of this man, who had three consecutive names. The book is supplied with rich illustrative material. Translation made according to the publication: Jean-Pierre Neraudau. Auguste. Paris. Les Belles Lettres, 1996.Ouvrage publi? avec l "aide du Minist? re fran? ais charg? de ia Culture - Center national du livre. Published with the help of the French Ministry of Culture (National Book Center).
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    • Vera Alekseevna Smirnova-Rakitina studied at the courses of book graphics, and for several years she was engaged in painting. She began publishing in 1933. In 1955, her book The Tale of Avicenna, a doctor, scientist, and philosopher, was published. lives on to this day.
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    • Adam Smith is the founder of classical political economy. In this book, Smith's deep and detailed presentation of economic theory, which does not contain deliberate simplifications in the name of popularization, is combined with a fascinating plot structure, which gives the book, in addition to its scientific value, the dignity of a work of fiction. The book gives emotional pleasure of figurative knowledge of historical reality.
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    • The heroic death of Vice Admiral V.A. Kornilov, who led the defense of Sevastopol in September 1854, which contemporaries called "Russian Troy", and Kornilov himself "a hero worthy of Ancient Greece", made a strong impression on both the participants in the defense and the emperor Nicholas I, and on the entire Russian society, and even on the then Europe. But many of the most important events in the biography of the Vice Admiral before the dramatic events of the Crimean War (1853-1855), his activities as an outstanding military organizer, theorist, strategist, innovator of military art at sea, who prepared a new glorious field for the Russian fleet, remained, as it were, in the shadow of serious interest. (with the exception of rare specialists in military history). This book successfully fills this gap. This is the first detailed study in our historiography of the life and work of an outstanding naval commander and a man, a patriot of Russia.
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    • Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), the son of a village priest, devoted himself to the sea from the age of twelve, went from cabin boy to vice admiral, became the youngest captain in the British fleet and the most famous naval commander in world history. No less famous than his brilliant victories at Aboukir and Trafalgar, Nelson brought a romantic love story for the beautiful Lady Hamilton. The author unfolds the fascinating and true story of the life of the famous admiral, not hiding that there were black pages in his life, and failures, and years of inactivity and oblivion.
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    • Maurice Lever's novel, written in a light, ironic language, tells about the life of the famous American dancer - the "divine" Isadora Duncan. The author successfully maneuvers between the vicissitudes of her artistic career and the follies of her private life. The reader will be able to plunge into the world of strong passions, wonderful spiritual impulses, flights of creative inspiration...
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    • Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov, like his sons Konstantin and Ivan - the brightest representatives of the current, called "Slavophilism", - left a significant mark on Russian culture and public life. The most significant works of S. T. Aksakov “Family Chronicle” and “Childhood of Bagrov the Grandson”, which were included in the treasury of Russian literature of the 19th century, are filled with love for the native land and its history. The famous critic and literary critic Mikhail Lobanov heartfeltly tells about the life of this amazing family and above all its head - Sergei Timofeevich, about the unique warmth and sincerity that were characteristic of their relationship.
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    • This writer became a legend during his lifetime. It would seem - one of the largest young Soviet prose writers, who became American, and then, finally, international - he is widely known. But this is an illusion. The difficult fate and work of the famous author of "Colleagues", "Star Ticket", "Burn", "Moscow Saga" and other popular stories and novels - Vasily Aksenov - have always been the subject of gossip, denunciations, tales, myths. His numerous stories, poems, essays, interviews are still of interest today. Dmitry Petrov's book is the result of work with hundreds of texts, dozens of people - relatives, friends, enemies and critics of Aksenov. This is a brave attempt to tell the truth about him. Or maybe make Aksenov even more of a mystery? ..
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    • Emperor Alexander I can undoubtedly be called the most mysterious and controversial figure among the Russian sovereigns of the 19th century. A Republican by conviction, he occupied the Russian throne for a quarter of a century. The winner of Napoleon and the liberator of Europe, he went down in history as Alexander the Blessed - however, his contemporaries, and later historians and writers, accused him of weakness, hypocrisy and other vices unworthy of a monarch. Finally, the circumstances of his death are mysterious. The well-known writer and publicist Alexander Arkhangelsky tells about the mystery of Emperor Alexander in his book.
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    • For more than two millennia, there have been disputes about the life and accomplishments of this man, who lived a short but unusually bright life in the world, full of victorious battles, hardships, suffering from wounds and hardships, feasts and all kinds of delights. Some speak of him as Alexander the Great, others as a cruel and miserable drunken tyrant. One thing is certain: he left an indelible mark on the history of mankind. The author of the book, the famous French explorer Paul Fort, himself walked the route of Alexander the Great's campaigns. He tried to lift the veil of secrecy enveloping the personality of this either a hero or a demigod, and told the reader about his discoveries.
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    • The book is dedicated to the life and work of the outstanding Russian mathematician and mechanic, academician L. M. Lyapunov (1857–1918), who developed a number of scientific areas that have not lost their significance today. The rigorous and general theory of stability he created is recognized all over the world, and the methods developed by Lyapunov form the basis of most modern studies of stability. Using archival materials, the author recreates the life and creative path of A. M. Lyapunov against the backdrop of the scientific life of Russia in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, closely intertwined with the fate of his brothers - the composer S. M. Lyapunov and academician-Slavist B. M. Lyapunov.
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    • Andrei Turkov, a well-known critic and literary critic, presents to the readers one of the first biographies of Alexander Tvardovsky (1910–1971) in modern times, his version of his fate, around which controversy does not subside. As a poet, author of the famous "Vasily Terkin", the most uplifting work of the war years, Tvardovsky is popularly loved. As a long-term head of Novy Mir, under which the magazine took a course towards criticizing the Stalinist leadership of the country, exposing all the “truth, land, no matter how bitter” about collectivization, repressions and the war itself, publishing “hazing” works by V. Nekrasov, V. Grossman, A. Solzhenitsyn (the book does not bypass the complexity of the relationship between the latter and Tvardovsky), - he is still at the center of heated discussions. In the direction of the magazine, a number of critics and party leaders saw "bloated criticism", belittling the victory in the war and the gains of socialism, shaking the foundations of the state, as well as the "great error of the poet." A. M. Turkov, defending the position of Tvardovsky, shows him as a passionate, honest, principled literary and public figure who thought about the interests of the people. The book is polemical, just as the figure of its hero is still polemical, just as the recent history of our country itself is polemical, the epic comprehension of which lies ahead.

    In the second half of April 1890, censorship permission was received for the publication of the first book in the series "The Life of Remarkable People" - a biography of Ignacio Loyola. Thus, the first book of the ZhZL series was published in St. Petersburg approximately in late April - early May 1890. Its author was the journalist Alexander Alekseevich Bykov. The series was published until 1924 by the publishing house of Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov, and since 1915 only reprints of previously published books were carried out, but in 1933, at the initiative of Maxim Gorky, the issue was resumed by the Journal and Newspaper Association.

    We present to your attention some interesting facts about the series of biographical and artistic biographical books "The Life of Remarkable People" ( ZhZL).

    A.A. Bykov: "I. Loyola: His Life and Public Works. 1890

    1) The ZhZL library was a huge success with readers of all ages. The total circulation of pre-revolutionary books in the series amounted to 1.5 million copies. The books were cheap, small in volume, but capacious in content. Take, for example, the biography of Mikhail Lermontov, dated 1891, the price is 25 kopecks. Almost anyone could buy it.

    2) The books of the ZhZL series were read by the Russian philosopher Berdyaev, the scientist Vernadsky, the poet and writer Bunin, the writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy, one of the most significant and famous Russian writers and thinkers in the world, Maxim Gorky, and many others.

    3) Russian bibliologist, bibliographer, popularizer of science and writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Rubakin spoke of the ZhZL series of books in the following way: “ Not a single one of Pavlenkov's cases, according to my observations, can compare with the enormous influence that Pavlenkov published and almost completed (if it can only be finished) "Biographical Library", or "The Life of Remarkable of people"».

    4) Books of the ZhZL series were not published in 1911, 1916, 1918-1921 and 1923. The last reprint of the Pavlenkov series - the book "Pushkin" by the populist critic Alexander Mikhailovich Skabichevsky - dates back to 1924.


    I. E. Grabar: Repin. 1933

    5) After the end of the Civil War, several attempts were made to organize a new large-scale biographical series, but only in the first half of the 1930s did the Soviet Union begin to have a sufficiently powerful publishing and printing base, which made it possible to publish biographies in large print runs. And as we said at the very beginning, in 1933, at the initiative of Maxim Gorky, the ZhZL series was resumed by the "Journal and Newspaper Association".

    6) Starting from the issue of 127-128 1938 and to this day, the ZhZL series is published by the Young Guard.

    7) Books were published and did not stop printing even during the Great Patriotic War. The series was published under the title "Great people of the Russian people" ( 1943-1944; 14 issues were released) and "Great Russian people" ( 1944-1945; also published 14 issues).


    8) The ZhZL series again became a bright phenomenon in public life in the 1960s and 1970s. After the resumption in 1933, the series was published in the first twenty years of 3-5 books a year, but with the onset of the Khrushchev thaw, from 1957, 20 biographical volumes were published annually, and from 1964 to 45-55.

    10) Back in the 1950s, three main principles were formulated on which the majestic ZhZL library “stands”: scientific reliability, high literary level and entertaining.


    Cover design in 1956-1962


    Serial design of ZhZL from the beginning of the 1960s to the present



    Book covers of the series. Photo by RIA Novosti, 1971

    11) In the early 90s, in the conditions of the collapse of the economy, the circulation of the ZhZL series fell, and the number of new titles also sharply decreased. In 1992, 2 books were published, in 1993 - 3, in 1994 - 1, in 1995 - again 3. "Resuscitation" of the series happened in the late 1990s - early 2000s. About 40 new publications began to appear annually.

    12) In 2001, when counting the number of issues, it was decided to add 200 “Pavlenkov” issues to the already released 799 issues of the “Gorky” series and assign them double numbers. Therefore, the biography of V. I. Vernadsky, written by G. P. Aksyonov, was published as issue 1000 (800). On this occasion, an exhibition of ZhZL books was held in the building of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The publishing house received congratulations from Russian President Vladimir Putin.


    13) In 2007, the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house was accused of “indulging the Orange Revolution” for publishing the book Mazepa by T. G. Tairova-Yakovleva.

    14) To date, more than 100 million copies of the ZhZL series have been published.

    15) In 2011, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the flight of the first man into space, Lev Danilkin's book "Yuri Gagarin" was published, which became the one and a half thousandth volume of the ZhZL series.

    The title "Lives of Remarkable People", known to everyone today, is based on the title "Vie des Hommes illustres", under which the French translation of Plutarch's Comparative Lives was published in the 19th century. This book was read in his youth by Florenty Pavlenkov, who borrowed its title for his biographical series.

    Format

    The books of the ZhZL series, founded by F. Pavlenkov, were published in a reduced format and cover. The series has changed the format more than once, but since 1956 it has remained unchanged - 84x108 / 32. In 2009, in addition to the main one, ZhZL: Small Series was founded, returning to Pavlenkov's "pocket" format.

    Hero

    The ZhZL series is a unique biographical canvas spanning four thousand years of world history and more than a thousand years of Russian history. Its heroes are representatives of various countries, eras and professions, from Nefertiti to Marilyn Monroe, from Rurik to Vladimir Vysotsky.

    Hero Image

    Starting from the first issues, on the cover of all ZhZL books, except for collections, the image of the hero is placed. The only exception was the book by V. Popov "Dovlatov" in the Small Series "ZhZL" - in it the text takes the place of the image: "There should have been a portrait of S. Dovlatov."

    Vertical and horizontal

    The photo of the hero on the cover is complemented by images related to his life and work. Sometimes they are created specifically for this publication - for example, a painting by the artist Gennady Tishchenko, placed on the cover of the book "Ivan Efremov" by O. Eremina and N. Smirnov.

    Author

    There are many well-known people among the authors of ZhZL. There were cases when the author of the series later became its hero: these are the writers M. Gorky and M. Bulgakov, the philosopher A. Losev, the intelligence officer I. Grigulevich, who published seven books in ZhZL under the pseudonyms I. Lavretsky and I. Grigoriev.

    Torch

    The golden torch, a symbol of enlightenment, became the emblem of the ZhZL series in 1958. Its author is the famous artist Boris Prorokov. In the new version of the cover by Yuri Arndt, the torch has become white.


    Hero

    For 125 years, the heroes of the series have become about two thousand prominent figures from various eras and countries. The most famous are devoted to several books by different authors. The record belongs to M. Lermontov and A. Chekhov - they are the heroes of six books in the series.

    Moscow

    Initially, the ZhZL books were published by the St. Petersburg publishing house F. Pavlenkov. In 1932, the series moved to Moscow, where it was published by Zhurgaz (Journal and Newspaper Publishing House). In 1938, the publication of the series passed into the hands of the Young Guard.

    Release

    The double numbering of the books "ZhZL" was introduced in 2001 after the release of the thousandth volume - the book by G. Aksenov "Vernadsky". Prior to this, 200 books in the series, published by F. Pavlenkov, were not included in the total bill. Since 1996, reissues of books have received a new serial number.

    Subtitle

    Sometimes the title of the book is supplemented by a subtitle. T. Bobrovnikova's book about Cicero has the subtitle "An intellectual in the days of the revolution", J. Tular's book about Napoleon - "The Myth of the Savior", V. Sysoev's book about Anna Kern - "Life in the name of love." There are times when the subtitle becomes more famous than the title - this happened with A. Nilin's book “Streltsov. The Man Without Elbows”, dedicated to the famous football player.

    Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov(1839-1900) - Russian publisher and educator. Produced mass editions of cheap books for the people; books of the ZhZL series cost 20 kopecks. The publishing house founded by him lasted until 1917.

    Alexei Maksimovich Gorky(1868-1936) - an outstanding Russian writer. Returning in 1932 to the USSR from emigration, he revived the ZhZL series.


    UDC, BBC

    In the books of the series, as in all book publications, the numbers of the UDC (universal decimal classification), LBC (library and bibliographic classification) and the author's mark are placed. All this is intended for the classification of books in libraries and various indexes.

    Copyrights

    The law protects the right of the author to the text of the book and the right of the publisher to the artistic design of the series and its title itself. The copyright mark has been placed on ZhZL books since 1995, when Russia recognized the 1952 Geneva Convention on Copyright.

    Assistance

    Some books in the series are published with the organizational and financial assistance of various organizations and government agencies. Sometimes foreign states, such as France, Germany, Norway, etc., provide assistance in translating and publishing books about their famous figures.

    ISBN

    ISBN, or International Standard Book Number, is a unique number of a book edition that is required to automate work with it. He first appeared in the Young Guard books in 1989.


    Key life dates

    The obligatory elements of the ZhZL books include the “Basic Dates” - the chronology of the life and work of the hero. It is not always short; for example, in L. Losev's book "Joseph Brodsky", the chronology compiled by V. Polukhina occupies more than 100 pages.

    Bibliography

    The book is supplemented by a "Short Bibliography" - a list of books in which the reader can find additional information and which the author used when creating a biography. Only in rare cases - for example, in A. Zhitnukhin's book "Leonid Shebarshin" - is there no bibliography.


    annotation

    It is enough to read the annotation to the book to become interested in the personality of its hero. Here is a typical example: “Viktor Shklovsky is one of the most controversial figures in Russian literature. World-famous literary critic, founder of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOYAZ) - and at the same time a participant in the First World War, who received the St. George Cross for bravery; Socialist-Revolutionary, who fled from the Chekists on the ice of the Gulf of Finland, a White émigré who became a successful Soviet literary figure. Many of Shklovsky's phrases have become winged, many of the terms and definitions he invented have entered literary criticism and criticism (for example, the “Hamburg account”), and the events of his life resemble an adventurous novel.

    Editor

    Often the editors of the ZHZL series also become its authors. Aleksey Karpov's books about Ancient Russia arouse the constant interest of readers. The oldest editor of the series, Galina Pomerantseva, is the author of the book Biography in the Stream of Time, dedicated to the history of ZhZL. Yury Loshchits worked as an editor for a long time - the author of books about Goncharov, Dmitry Donskoy, Cyril and Methodius.

    Artistic editor

    makes sure that the design elements of the book are not only expressive, but also related to its content. Sometimes the design changes over time: for example, "Boris Pasternak" by D. Bykov has two versions - "summer" and "winter".

    Printing house

    For many years, the books of the ZHZL series were published in the printing house of the Young Guard. Since 2012, they have been printed by the Yaroslavl Printing Plant.

    Circulation

    The books of Pavlenkov's "ZhZL" had a circulation of five thousand copies. In Soviet times, the circulation of the series increased significantly: the circulation of the book by V. Kardashov "Rokossovsky" (1972) was a record one, amounting to two hundred thousand. Today, the circulation of ZhZL books is from three to five thousand, although for some books it is much higher.

    Corrector

    Most of all "wonderful lives" live proofreaders, looking for all sorts of errors in the text.


    Young guard

    Young Guard is the oldest publishing house in Russia, founded in 1922. Since 1992, it has been part of the JSC of the same name. For almost half a century it has been located in a historic building at 21 Suschevskaya Street, where many famous writers, scientists, and public figures worked or visited.

    Barcode

    Barcode - graphic information applied to the surface, marking or packaging of products, representing the possibility of reading it by technical means - a sequence of black and white stripes or other geometric shapes.

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    (ZhZL) || 2365 books || Year: 1890-2014 || Genre: Fiction, biographies, history, rarities
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    Your attention the publication is presented: "The Life of Remarkable People" - the oldest Russian book series, founded in 1890 by the outstanding Russian educator F.F. Pavlenkov (1839-1900) and continued in 1933 by M. Gorky (1868-1936), the country's first and universal collection of biographies of outstanding artists, composers and painters, writers, politicians, scientists and philosophers from different countries, written according to historical and literary sources. In recent years, the ZHZL series has taken on a new lease of life. The content of the vast majority of new books meets the three main principles proclaimed by the editors back in the 1950s - scientific authenticity, high literary level and entertaining. At the same time, the first of these terms has become today, of course, the main and determining factor in the choice of authors. Many of the authors of this series themselves become its heroes over time.

    http://i056.radikal.ru/1508/6d/58df1a00d877.jpg "The Life of Remarkable People" - a series of biographical and artistic biographical books published in 1890-1924 by the publishing house of F. F. Pavlenkov, and since 1915 only reprints of previously published books. In 1933, at the initiative of Maxim Gorky, the series was resumed by the Journal and Newspaper Association.

    Starting from issue 127-128 of 1938 and to this day, the series is published by the Young Guard. During the Great Patriotic War, the series was published under the titles "Great people of the Russian people" (1943-1944; 14 issues were released) and "Great Russian people" (1944-1945); also published 14 issues).

    In 2001, it was decided, when counting the number of issues, to add 200 "Pavlenkovsky" issues to the already released 799 issues of the "Gorky" series and assign them double numbers. Therefore, the biography of V. I. Vernadsky, written by G. P. Aksyonov, was published as issue 1000 (800).

    The Young Guard publishes in parallel the series The Life of Remarkable People: A Series of Biographies. “Life of wonderful people. Small Series: A Series of Biographies” and “Life of Remarkable People. Biography continues ... ". The “Small Series” opened with the release of A. K. Voronsky’s book “Gogol”, prepared for the main series back in 1934 (even signal copies were released, some of which survived, but because of the terror that unfolded after the murder of S. M. Kirov and the death of the author, the book was never published). Unless otherwise stated, refers to The Lives of Remarkable People: Biographies Series.

    In total, more than 1,400 books have been published in the series with a total circulation of more than 100 million copies. In April 2011, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight into space, a new biography of Yu. A. Gagarin was published in the series, which became the jubilee, 1500th issue.

    In the 1960s-1980s, the historical and biographical almanac of the ZhZL series "Prometheus" was published. The 2000s also saw the release of books in audio format; A total of eight books have been published. Now the audio project of the ZhZL series is closed.

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    Catalogs, periodicals. small series, etc.: 165 files. The material was copied from the network, edited, files (books) were selectively checked - for quality compliance, etc. The names of the included literature are in the catalogs included in the distribution. Also, by the link under the poster - lists of books included in the distribution. Some books are duplicated in different formats. Who does not need extra files, select the formats (format) you need and remove the unnecessary ones. In the future, new books will be added, and volumes that are not included in other collections may be found and added.
    Is this collection complete? Not yet, since the information in different sources varies, it needs to be finalized.
    Are there more collections online? By the number of files - yes, but due to duplication in different formats.
    Since the distribution contains photos, catalogs in Excel format, etc., the exact number of books may differ slightly. In the original source it was stated 2500, it turned out not to be so. If you find inconsistencies - write, I will be grateful.
    r.n. The author of the handout will be happy with objective comments and suggestions (meaning: I will be glad to add a super-rare chot from the series that everyone missed, but you probably know)