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The famous book series “The Life of Remarkable People” was founded in 1890 by the famous publisher and educator Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov (1839-1900), who planned to publish 200 biographies of outstanding people of all times and peoples.
F. Pavlenkov carefully selected "heroes" for his books, paying special attention to the importance and role that this person played in the history of society. F. Pavlenkov began his series with the publication of a book about the founder of the Jesuit order, Ignatius Loyola.
Published from 1890 to 1915, the 200-volume ZhZL library has withstood 40 pre-revolutionary reprints with a total circulation of about 1.5 million copies. Until 1915, the editions of the series were published in small books, accessible to the general reader, at a price of 5 kopecks.
In 1916, Maxim Gorky decided to continue the biographical series of F. Pavlenkov. He intended to involve famous Russian and foreign writers, scientists and public figures in writing biographies. However, the events of 1917 and the Civil War prevented this plan from being implemented. And only in 1933 the book series was renewed. By the beginning of the year, four manuscripts had been prepared and submitted for editing. The publisher announced to the readers about the subscription to this series both monthly and for the whole year (24 issues).
In those years, the series was published by the Journal and Newspaper Association. The editorial board of the series included M. Gorky, S. Vavilov, I. Grabar, A. Lunacharsky, A. Tikhonov, A. Frumkin, O. Schmidt and others. The covers of the first issues were designed by artist P. Alyakrinsky. Each of them bore the inscription “Life of Remarkable People” and a portrait of the “hero” of the book. The first book of the new series was the monograph in two volumes by Alexander Deutsch "Heinrich Heine".
In 1938, the Journal-Newspaper Association was reformed, and the biographical series “ZhZL” was transferred, in accordance with M. Gorky's wishes, to the publishing house “Molodaya Gvardiya”, the central youth publishing house of the country. Since then, this publication has never been interrupted again, even during the Great Patriotic War.
In 1943, a biographical series began to appear under the title "Great People of the Russian People" (14 issues). From 1944 to 1945 the series was called The Great Russian People (28 books were published). Since 1945, the biographical series has been re-published under its old name "The Life of Remarkable People".
In 1962, a cover project appeared with a portrait of the "hero" of the book and an image of a torch, made according to a drawing by the artist Y. Arndt.
During the existence of "ZhZL" 1170 volumes have been published with a total circulation of more than 200 million - including translations into other languages. In some years, several books were published: three books were published in 1946, 1948, 1952 and 1953, in 1959 25 books were published, in 1960 - 30, in 1962 - 26, in 1965 - 32, in 1968 year - 28. In the 1970-1980s, on average, 14-18 books were published annually.
After the collapse of the USSR, the publication of the books in the series dropped sharply. In 1992, two books were published, in 1994 - one.
In recent years, the annual release of the ZhZL series has been 20-30 biographical books, and the total circulation of the series has exceeded 100 million copies today.
In 2001, the thousandth volume of the series was published, including about 200 volumes published by its founder F. Pavlenkov. From the same year, the books of the ZhZL series began to be assigned a double number: the first digit means the number since the founding of the biographical series by F. Pavlenkov in 1890, the second number (in brackets) - the number since the continuation of the series by M. Gorky in 1933.
In the modern "ZhZL" two trends can be traced. Some of the books are based on facts, documentary prevails in them. The authors of such studies, as a rule, are historians, scientists, professionals, scrupulously reflecting every step, without deviating from archival and documentary evidence. Another direction is closer to fiction.
Since 2005, the publishing house began to release a new series - about people whose activities are still ongoing. The first to receive this honor was the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov. They wrote about figures during their lifetime in the "Pavlenkovo" series "ZhZL": these were publications about the life of Leo Tolstoy, Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone (Prime Minister of Great Britain). In the series “ZhZL”, continued by Maxim Gorky, only people were told about people who had left.
“Krylov did not like to remember his youth and childhood. The wise old man realized that only in his fables would he outlive himself, his peers and grandchildren. He, in fact, was born at forty. In the period of his full glory, he had already outlived his peers, and there was no one to learn the details of his young age from. Krylov was not interested in what they write and say about him, ignored his own biographies sent to him for viewing - Russian and French. On one of them he wrote in pencil: “I read it. Neither to correct, nor to straighten, neither time nor desire ”. He was also reluctant to answer verbal inquiries. And we are, of course, interested in the smallest details of his life and childhood. The latter is even more interesting since all Krylov, both by birth and upbringing, and by the mindset and character, belongs to the last century. Twenty-five years have already passed since the day when all of Russia celebrated the centenary of the birth of the glorious fabulist. He was born on February 2, 1768 in Moscow. Later famous for anecdotal laziness, Krylov began his life in the midst of wanderings, labors and dangers. He was born at a time when his father, a poor army officer, was standing with his dragoon regiment in Moscow. But the Pugachev movement arose, and Andrei Prokhorovich moved with his regiment to the Urals. A zealous warrior, - Krylov's father with extraordinary energy defended Yaitsky from Pugachev ...
In the second half of April 1890, censorship was granted for the publication of the first book in the Life of Remarkable People series - the 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 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, on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, the issue was resumed by the "Journal and Newspaper Association".
We present to your attention a few interesting facts about the series of biographical and artistic and biographical books "Life of Remarkable People" ( ZhZL).
A.A. Bykov: “I. Loyola: His Life and Community Activities. 1890
1) Library "ZhZL" was a huge success among readers of all ages. The total circulation of the pre-revolutionary books in the series was 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 everyone 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 well-known 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 about the ZhZL series of books: “ None of Pavlenkov's cases, according to my observations, can compare with the enormous influence that Pavlenkov's published and almost completed (if only it can be finished) "Biographical Library" or "The Life of Wonderful People" had on Russian readers of all strata, classes and ranks. people"».
4) The books of the ZhZL series were not published in 1911, 1916, 1918−1921 and 1923. The last reprint of Pavlenkov's series - the book "Pushkin" by the populist critic Alexander Mikhailovich Skabichevsky - dates back to 1924.
Igor Grabar: Repin. 1933
5) After the end of the Civil War, several attempts were made to organize a new large-scale biographical series, but it was only in the first half of the 1930s that the Soviet Union began to possess a sufficiently powerful publishing and printing base, which made it possible to publish biographies in large editions. And as we said at the very beginning, in 1933, on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, the ZhZL series was renewed by the "Journal and newspaper association".
6) Starting from the issue 127-128 in 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 titles "Great People of the Russian People" ( 1943-1944; 14 issues were released) and "Great Russian people" ( 1944-1945; 14 issues were also released).
8) The series of ZhZL again became a striking phenomenon in the social life of the 1960-1970s. After the resumption in 1933, the series was published in the first twenty years of 3-5 books per 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 library "ZhZL" "stands": scientific reliability, high literary level and amusement.
Cover design in 1956-1962
Serial design of ZhZL from the early 1960s to the present
Series book covers. Photo by RIA Novosti, 1971
11) In the early 90s, in the context of the collapse of the economy, circulation of the series "ZhZL" 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. The "Reanimation" of the series happened in the late 1990s - early 2000s. About 40 new editions began to appear annually.
12) In 2001, when counting the number of issues, it was decided to add 200 “Pavlenkovo” series to the 799 issues already published in the Gorky series and assign them double numbers. Therefore, the biography of V.I.Vernadsky, penned by G.P. Aksyonov, came out 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 the publication of 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, for the 50th anniversary of the first man's flight into space, Lev Danilkin's book "Yuri Gagarin" was published, which became the one and a half thousandth volume of the "ZhZL" series.