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From the history of the series
“And I remember you, lists and lists,
I see you before me behind the face of a face.
You are close to me in the deserted steppe again.
I have long comprehended your mysteries!
By the lamp, leaning over the catalog,
To delve into the titles of unknown books.
Valery BRYUSOV
Artillery officer Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov (1839-1900), having retired in 1866, devoted himself to publishing. A convinced educator, he paid special attention to the publication of books for public education and the promotion of natural science knowledge.
Among the publications of Pavlenkov, the ZhZL series was especially popular.
The ZhZL series of books has been living for 123 years. The first issues began to appear at the end of the nineteenth century. During the existence of the centenarian, more than 1400 volumes were published in it.
Since the 30s of the 20th century, the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house has been the successor of the glorious undertaking of the largest Russian educator F. F. Pavlenkov, who conceived and founded a biographical library in 1890. The 200-volume (the number indicated by the organizer of the series in the publication prospectus) Pavlenkov's ZhZL library was published from 1890 to 1915 and was a success with readers of all ages, having withstood 40 pre-revolutionary reprints with a total circulation of approximately 1.5 million copies.
Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov, who has been engaged in enlightenment, education and book publishing all his life, bequeathed his capital to the device of two thousand free folk reading rooms and libraries in remote Russian villages.
There is also a book in the series dedicated to this remarkable man.
In January 1933, the first issues of the Gorky ZhZL series, published by the Journal and Newspaper Association ("Zhurgaz" arose on the basis of the reorganized "Spark"), laid down on the table for subscribers, marking the second birth of the most extensive and the only universal collection of biographies in our country. M. Gorky is trying to attract the best forces, both Russian and foreign, to cooperate in the creation of the updated ZhZL series: “wonderful” should be written about “remarkable” - this is the main leitmotif. Not everything came true, but the ideas themselves are interesting; "Socrates" and "Beethoven" performed by R. Rolland, "Edison" - G. Wells, "Columbus" - F. Nansen, "Cervantes" - I. Bunin, "Darwin" - K. Timiryazev, "Francis Bacon" - A. Lunacharsky. P. "Pavlenko" was going to write "Shamil", M. Koltsov - "Magellan", B. Tomashevsky - "Pushkin", F. Raskolnikov "Lermontov".
In 1938, the ZhZL series was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Young Guard, the country's central youth publishing house. Since then, this publication has never been interrupted again, even in the harsh years of the Great Patriotic War, when the series was transformed into a modestly designed library "Great people of the Russian people." Its releases (28 books with a total circulation of 855 thousand copies) raised the patriotic spirit, bringing the long-awaited Victory closer.
In recent years, the series has gained a second wind: 50-60 new biographies and reprints are published annually, that is, almost twice as many as in Soviet times.
The ZhZL series occupies a very special place not only in the biography of the Young Guard publishing house, but also in domestic book publishing as a whole.
Along with the Bolshoi Theater in the field of performing arts, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum in painting, it is a true national treasure.
ZhZL - a series of books about famous, famous people who lived on earth and left behind a memory to their descendants in the form of cultural, literary, scientific and other values.
The genre of presentation is scientific and artistic. The content of the absolute majority of 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 the above terms has become today the editors of the series, of course, the main and decisive factor in the choice of authors. Many of the authors of this series themselves become its heroes over time. In total, more than 1,400 books have been published in the series with a total circulation of more than 100 million copies.
This illustrious series of books lives on today!
Thanks to Russian World Foundation The Maritime Library has received new books in the ZhZL series that you may be interested in:
Aksenov Gennady
Vernadsky
- M .: Young Guard, 2010. - 608 p.
The life of the great Russian scientist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky is wonderful and amazing, it is an example of integrity, saturation with the highest spiritual interests, moral responsibility. His clever work connects different eras in the history of Russia. He powerfully moved forward all the sciences of the Earth, which led to a new understanding of society and the individual. He created the doctrine of the biosphere and the mind in nature, gave a new idea of time and space and, consequently, discovered a new natural science, which is only today becoming intelligible to world scientific thinking. His time has come. In the new millennium, we need more than ever his extraordinary ideas about the eternity of life and the powers of a free human personality. Summing up his life, he said: "I did my best and did not make anyone unhappy." The book is equipped with a scientific apparatus.
Dmitry Bykov Boris Pasternak
- M.: Young Guard, 2010.-892s.
Series: The Life of Remarkable People (ZhZL) This book is about the life, work - and wonderworking - of one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century, Boris Pasternak; declaration of love for the hero and the world of his poetry. The author does not scrupulously trace the path of his hero from day to day, he tries to restore for himself and the reader the inner life of Boris Pasternak, so full of tragedy and happiness.
The reader is involved in the main events of Pasternak's life, the socio-historical catastrophes that accompanied him all the way, those creative connections and influences, obvious and hidden, without which the existence of any talented person is unthinkable. The book gives a new interpretation of the legendary novel "Doctor Zhivago", which played such a fatal role in the life of its creator 
Varlamov A.N.
Andrey Platonov.- M .: Young Guard, 2011.-546s.
Andrei Platonov (1899-1951), the most mysterious and incorrect Russian writer of the 20th century, passed almost unnoticed by the brilliant literary mirrors of the era. However, in no writer's fate has the national life of Russia manifested itself so sharply, and in no other work has the tragedy of a people orphaned in the revolution expressed itself so deeply and fully. Novels, short stories, short stories, articles, plays by Andrey Platonov, most of which were published many years after his death, became artistically weighty evidence and heartfelt reflection on what happened to Russian people in the great and terrible decades of the past century.
The fate and personality of Platonov were never limited to one literature and are known to the general reader much less than his work. Meanwhile, the circumstances of his life make it possible to see and understand a lot in Platonic books that are difficult to perceive. Aleksey Varlamov, a well-known prose writer and literary historian, presents to the readers' judgment the biography of Andrey Platonov, created on the basis of a significant number of archival documents and texts, including recently discovered ones, traces the creative path and recreates the personal, everyday features of his hero, who, in the words Viktor Nekrasov "I was not a writer in my life, but in my writing work I always remained a man."
Varlamov A.N. Grigory Rasputin
- M .: Young Guard, 2008. -864 p.
In his work, the author tries to understand the biography of Grigory Rasputin, who is considered one of the darkest and most mysterious figures in Russian history of the twentieth century. Based on previously unknown documents and testimonies of Grigory Rasputin's contemporaries, A. Varlamov tried to answer a number of questions: Rasputin's origin? Was he a German spy? What is so mysterious about his connections with women, and what did he have to do with the whip sect?
In the book, the author expresses the opinion that in Rasputin there was nothing from either the devil or the saint. His fate was such that he turned out to be a historical test that Russia could not withstand.
To date, this is the most complete biography of Rasputin, which uses a huge historical material, new documents, research and newly discovered evidence of contemporaries of that tragic era.
Vlasov L.
Mannerheim
- M.: Young Guard, 2005.-320s.
Mannerheim's line... For many years, this combination was like the crest of a fairy-tale villain, from which impenetrable forests grew on the hero's path, mountain steeps rose up. Even more mysterious and ominous was the figure of the Swedish baron, the creator of a powerful system of fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus, where so much blood of Soviet soldiers was shed in the infamous Winter War (1939-1940). The author of the book, Professor Leonid Vasilyevich Vlasov, on the basis of numerous documents convincingly proves that Marshal and President of Finland Carl Gustav Mannerheim (1867-1951) does not belong to the cohort of great villains and belongs not only to Finnish history. A brilliant officer, faithfully serving the Russian Empire for thirty years, left an indelible mark on the combat past of the Russian army. Paradoxically, while fighting the Soviet Union, he was not an enemy of Russia.
Ganichev ValeryUshakov Fedor Fedorovich
- M .: Young Guard, 2008.-560s.
Ushakov was the most outstanding Russian naval commander in the entire history of the Russian fleet. There is no doubt that all forty campaigns that he completed were victorious by the providence of God. The book tells about the earthly path, remarkable activity and glorification of the holy righteous Theodore Ushakov, admiral, founder of the maneuvering tactics of the sailing fleet, supporter of the Suvorov principles of training and education of military sailors. Based on rare archival materials.
Eliseeva O. I. 
Catherine the Great
-M.: Young Guard, 2010.-640s.
Among the rulers of Russia, Empress Catherine II, or Catherine the Great (1729-1796), occupies a special place. German by birth, who did not have any dynastic rights to the Russian throne, she occupied it as a result of a coup and for almost thirty-five years autocratically and firmly ruled a huge empire. The time of her reign is called the "golden age" of the Russian nobility. Two victorious wars with Turkey and one with Sweden, the annexation of the Crimea and the development of Novorossia, the divisions of Poland, as a result of which the Orthodox Ukrainian lands became part of the Russian state - all these are also brilliant achievements of Catherine's "golden age". But in the biography of the empress herself, many mysteries remain. About many of them - the conspiracy of 1762 and the true role of various actors in it, the mystery of the death of Emperor Peter III and the involvement of his wife in this, Catherine's numerous novels and her secret marriage with Potemkin, her views on the burning problems of Russian reality and real politics on peasant and other issues, correspondence with philosophers and relationships with Freemasons - vividly and fascinatingly, with the involvement of all surviving (including archival) sources, the well-known researcher of the Russian XVIII century Olga Eliseeva tells in her new book.
Ippolitov G.M. Denikin
- M .: Young Guard, 2006. - 672s.
Anton Ivanovich Denikin is one of the most colorful figures in Russian history. Marked by a bright military talent, he lived a difficult, dramatic life, which reflected the complex and contradictory reality of Russia at the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. His military career was married to such global events as the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War and the Civil War. He experienced the loud glory of victories and the bitterness of defeat, the hardships of emigration, wandering in a foreign land. During the Second World War, the Nazis persuaded the general to cooperate, but he answered with a decisive refusal, because all his life he served only Russia.
Publisher: Young Guard, 2008 Ganichev Valery Ushakov
Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov was the most outstanding Russian naval commander in the entire history of the Russian fleet. There is no doubt that all forty campaigns that he completed were victorious by the providence of God. The book tells about the earthly path, remarkable activity and glorification of the holy righteous Theodore Ushakov, admiral, founder of the maneuvering tactics of the sailing fleet, supporter of the Suvorov principles of training and education of military sailors. Based on rare archival materials.
Kozlyakov V.N. Mikhail Fedorovich
- M.: Young Guard, 2010.-346s.
Russia after the Time of Troubles is the main theme of this book.
Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, the founder of the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia for more than three hundred years, ascended the throne at the age of fifteen and received power over a devastated, bleeding and torn apart country.
How did it happen that Russia not only survived, but managed to take a significant step forward in its development? What is the role of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich in this? Does the opinion widespread in the literature, according to which he was a weak, weak-willed ruler, who was completely under the influence of his parents and other relatives, correspond to reality? And to what extent was this a blessing or, conversely, a misfortune for Russia?
Kuzina A.
Chekhov. "The life of an individual".-M.: Young Guard, 2012.-880s.
For the 150th anniversary of the writer came out
the most complete biography of the writer to date.
The work of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov marked the highest rise of Russian classical literature, becoming its "calling card" for the whole world. The main reason for this is the novelty of Chekhov's works, where behind the external ordinariness of the plot lies the deep drama of human relationships and characters. Interest in Chekhov's personality, which determined the originality of his creative method, is huge, therefore, more and more new biographies of him appear in different countries. The most complete of them to date is a major study by the famous literary critic A.P. Kuzina, covering the social activity of the writer, his personal life, the history of the creation of his works. The book, published in the ZhZL series, is recommended for reading by all lovers and connoisseurs of Russian literature.
Kuzmina S.B. Admiral Kornilov
- M.: Young Guard, 2007.-416s.
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 whole of 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.
Kunyaev St., Kunyaev S. Sergey Yesenin
- M.: Young Guard, 2010. -608s.
This book is fundamentally different from all previously published books about Yesenin, since no ideological dogmas interfered with its creation. In the process of work, the authors managed to get acquainted with a huge number of archival documents that were previously inaccessible. The book traces storylines that have not yet been developed in literature: Yesenin and Trotsky, Yesenin and Stalin, Yesenin and the Romanov family. The relationship of the poet with Zinaida Reich, Isadora Duncan and other life partners, the role of Yesenin in the development of Russian nationalism in the 1920s are covered in a new way. Using many previously unknown documents, chapters were written about Yesenin's stay abroad and, of course, about his tragic death.
S. Yesenin in a conversation with V. Erlich
Kurukin I.V.
Princess Tarakanova.-M.: Young Guard. 2011, - 272s.
The one who later became known as Princess Tarakanova remains one of the most mysterious and attractive figures of the 18th century with its palace coups, colorful heroes, alcove secrets and impostors. She easily changed names, countries and lovers, sent letters to the Turkish sultan and the Vatican cardinal, called the brother of the Cossack leader Pugachev and made Catherine II herself worry. The beautiful adventurer was sponsored by a Polish magnate, and the German sovereign count was ready to marry her, but no one ever found out the secret of her origin. It is not surprising that her biography is overgrown with numerous legends. The book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences Igor Kurukin, written on the basis of documents, tells the true story of a desperate adventurer who pretended to be the daughter of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, who claimed the Russian throne, who even in the casemate of the Peter and Paul Fortress preferred death to a confession of guilt.
Losev L.V.
Joseph Brodsky.
-M.: Young Guard, 2006.-447p.
The life of the outstanding poet, Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is full of dramatic turns. Years of poverty and non-recognition, exile, emigration and loud worldwide fame fell to his lot. At the same time, he himself, "a Russian poet and an American citizen," always considered the main thing for himself to be creativity that stands outside state borders. This inseparable unity of life and work is reflected in the biography of Brodsky, written by his old acquaintance, the famous poet and philologist Lev Losev. In the presentation of Losev, Brodsky appears as the heir to great Russian poetry, who managed to "graft a classic rose into the Soviet" wild "
This book is a wonderful gift for admirers of the poet and anyone interested in Russian literature of the 20th century.
Milenko Victoria. Arkady Averchenko
-M.: Young Guard, 2010.-320s.
Arkady Averchenko - the titled "king of laughter", the founder, tireless editor and many-sided author of the most popular magazines "Satyricon" and "New Satyricon", who published book after book of his own stories and managed to gain fame as an epicurean, a frequenter of restaurants and a note heartthrob - still remains a riddle. Why did he, "a native of the people," warmly greet the February Revolution and thrust his famous book "A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution" into the October Revolution? Why did Lenin respond to "A Dozen of Knives" with a personal review entitled "A Talented Book"? Why, finally, none of the "stories of the heart" brought the humorist to the marriage crown? Victoria Milenko, candidate of philological sciences, Sevastopol researcher of the life and work of her fellow countryman, made an attempt to give a voluminous biography of Arkady Averchenko and answer many questions by combining foreign research, domestic developments and her discoveries both in archival funds and in the history of the writer's family, searching for his living relatives. For the first time, new documents, memoirs, photographs are put into circulation in the publication. The book is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of A. Averchenko.
Mlechin Leonid Furtseva
- M.: Young Guard, 2011.-409s.
None of the women in the Soviet Union rose to such a pinnacle of power as Ekaterina Alekseevna Furtseva. She is remembered as the Minister of Culture, but before that she was one of the top leaders of the Soviet state. She quickly made a career when there was no way for women to enter big politics. And she owed everything to herself. This cheerful woman with a stormy temperament and a strong character could not bear one thing - when she was rejected, both in her personal life and in her political life. She seemed to have a will of steel, but she was internally vulnerable and tried to commit suicide. There are many mysteries in her life, and no one knows under what circumstances the Minister of Culture of the USSR passed away. The new book by Leonid Mlechin is the first complete political biography of E.A. Furtseva, one of the brightest personalities of Soviet history.
Novikov V. Alexander Blok
-M.: Young Guard, 2010.-252p.
Alexander Blok lived and worked at the turn of two worlds - in the era of the preparation and implementation of the October Revolution. He was the last great poet of the old, pre-October Russia, who completed in his work the poetic searches of the entire 19th century. And at the same time, his name opens the first, title page of the history of Russian Soviet poetry.
I bless everything that wasI was not looking for a better share.
Oh, heart, how much you loved!
Oh mind, how you burned!
Let both happiness and torment
They laid their bitter trail
But in a passionate storm, in a long boredom
I have not lost the old light.
And you, whom I tormented new,
I'm sorry. We are to be together.
Everything that cannot be said in words
I recognized in your form.
Watching eyes look
And the heart beats, worrying, in the chest,
In the cold darkness of a snowy night
Your faithful continuing path.
Osipov V.
Sholokhov
-M.: Young Guard, 2010, - 672s.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov ranks among the greatest world writers such as Homer, Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy. His great epic "Quiet Don" - about the tragedy of the Cossacks in the Civil War - will remain a monument of the Russian XX century for all time. The life of Sholokhov himself is no less dramatic than his famous hero Grigory Melekhov. However, for a long time she was in the shadow of his official status - the main Soviet writer, a member of the Central Committee of the party and a deputy of the Supreme Council. The author of the book, V. O. Osipov, a laureate of the All-Russian Sholokhov Prize, had known the writer for more than twenty years, and visited him more than once in the village of Veshenskaya. Based on many years of research, archival documents, until recently kept under the heading "Secret", as well as personal impressions, the author tried to recreate the life of the great writer in chronological order and free his appearance from the usual officialdom and slander.
Poznansky A.
P.I. Chaikovsky
-M.: Young Guard, 2010.-800s.
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Alexander Poznansky is the author of numerous articles and monographs about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky published in the USA, Great Britain, Germany and Japan. The painstaking archival searches of recent years have been reflected in a new biography of the composer, based on documentary materials - multi-volume correspondence and inaccessible memoirs of his contemporaries, resulting in a completely different image of the genius of Russian musical art, not similar to that established in the 20th century.
One of the most recent books about the composer is interesting in that the author tried to maneuver between two trends in revealing the image of Tchaikovsky - "idealization" and "debunking". To what extent this has been achieved is for the readers of this book to judge.
Popov Valery. Dovlatov
- M.: Young Guard, 2010.-355s.
The literary glory of Sergei Dovlatov has a short history: for many years he could not
to break through to the reader with his funny and sad works that violate all the laws of socialist realism. The publication in Russia of the first Dovlatov's books coincided with the untimely death of their author in distant New York. Interest in the life and work of the émigré writer, whose books triumphantly returned to the Russian reader at the end of perestroika (Dovlatov himself, alas, only waited for magazine publications in his homeland) has practically not decreased since then.
Today, his work has not only won the love of millions of readers, but also attracts the attention of literary scholars, who appreciate in it a refined style, conciseness, and a depth of understanding of life with outward simplicity.
The first biography of Dovlatov in the ZhZL series was written by his old acquaintance, the famous St. Petersburg writer Valery Popov. Valery Popov knew his hero quite well even before emigrating.
Combining personal impressions with the memories of Dovlatov's relatives and friends, he truthfully recreates the difficult life path of his hero, the history of the creation of his works, his relationship with his contemporaries, many of whom, having changed beyond recognition, became characters in his books.
Due to the fault of the writer's heirs, who frightened the publishing house "Young Guard" with possible lawsuits, the book was published without illustrations. It turns out that there is a law that says that you can post photos only with the consent of all the persons imprinted on them.
The book is written in a very friendly tone, a lot of personal memories. 
Prilepin Zakhar.
Leonid Leonov
- M.: Young Guard, 2010. -576s.
Zakhar Prilepin, one of the most famous young writers, offers his version of the biography of the last Russian classic Leonid Leonov, who lived a huge life full of tragic collisions that have not yet been fully explored, as well as original interpretations of his classic works: the novels "Badgers", "The Thief ", "Road to the Ocean", "Russian Forest", "Pyramid". Separate chapters are devoted to Leonov's complex relationship with Yesenin, Bulgakov, Gorky. A new look at the time of the so-called "Stalinist repressions" allows the author to assert that Leonov in his works played a difficult, long and dangerous "game" with the leader, which is one of the most curious, almost detective plots in the literature of the 20th century. The author did not pass by such a complex, controversial topic as Leonov and the Church. The book, like the life of its hero, covers a huge era: from the First World War and the Civil War to the collapse of the USSR and the execution of the parliament.
This is a guide to the complex world of Leonid Leonov..
A new book by Zakhar Prilepin "Leonid Leonov: His Game Was Huge" has already made it to the long list of one of the country's most prestigious awards, the Big Book.
Sakharov A.N.
Stepan Razin
3rd ed., rev. and additional - M .: Young Guard, 2010. - 288 p.: silt
The personality of the Don ataman Stepan Razin has always attracted the attention of many artists, writers, and musicians. Legends are composed about Stepan Razin, novels and short stories are written, films are staged.
The book by the historian and publicist Andrei Sakharov recreates the atmosphere of the time when Stepan Razin lived and acted, tells about the first steps in the diplomatic and military field that were made by Razin.
Based on the latest documentary materials, using surviving folk songs and stories about Razin, the author shows the outstanding character of the peasant leader, his organizational talent, courage and courage, hatred of the oppressors - those qualities that contributed to the promotion of Razin to the leaders of a broad peasant uprising.
Seleznev Yuri.
Dostoevsky.
- Ed. 4th, rev. - M.: Young Guard, 2004. - 510 p.
The biography of F. M. Dostoevsky, created by the remarkable critic Yu. I. Seleznev, can be called the most relevant book to date. all the burning questions - faith or rationalism, the original path of Russia or orientation to Western experience, strong statehood, or liberalism, the willfulness of a person or submission to his highest idea - that concern every person today, were already comprehended and prophetically resolved by Dostoevsky in artistic, journalistic, worldview level.
Smirnov A. Prutkov Kozma
. -M.: Young Guard, 2011.- 432s
Kozma Prutkov is one of the favorite and long-known character authors, created by the mystifying talent of Alexei Tolstoy and the brothers Vladimir, Alexei and Alexander Zhemchuzhnikov. The popularity of Kozma among generations of readers is enormous to this day. They remember him, they quote him, they talk about him. The new biography is distinguished by the completeness and novelty of the material. The book about Prutkov is built on an annotated presentation of "biographical notes" about him and his "ancestors"; on the materials of the life and work of the Zhemchuzhnikovs and Tolstoy, in the part in which they relate to Prutkov. The background of the biography was the situation of the cultural and social life of Russia in the middle of the 19th century, as it was reflected in the humor of the time (in literature and fine arts).
Tomsinov V.A. Arakcheev
- M.: Young Guard, 2010.– 429 p.
A documentary story about the life and work of a man whose name is associated with an entire era in the history of Russia, Count Alexei Andreevich Arakcheev. On the basis of archival documents, many of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the book gives the image of a major dignitary who played a crucial role in the mechanism of autocratic power at the end of the 18th - the first quarter of the 19th century, reveals the secret springs of his rise, the true meaning of the phenomenon, called " Arakcheevshchina". The colorful personality of Arakcheev is depicted against the background of the events of that time, in relations with the emperors Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I, prominent dignitaries - M. M. Speransky, F. V. Rostopchin, M. B. Barclay de Tolly and others.
Shigin Vladimir
Admiral Nelson
- M.: Young Guard, 2010.-380s.
Horatio Nelson, 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 the fact that there were black pages in his life, and failures, and years of inactivity and oblivion.
We evaluate books from the ZhZL series according to two criteria - how the book itself is written from the point of view of literature and how much the author managed to reflect the personality and work of his hero, to arouse readers' interest in him. A. Einstein said:
“The moral qualities of a remarkable person matter more
for his generation and for the historical process,
than purely intellectual achievements"
This famous series is in constant demand among our readers. There are also fans of the ZhZL series who have remained faithful to it through the years, through all the economic and ideological upheavals of recent years.
Reader Chubrikov Vladimir Ivanovich takes on the subscription only books of the series "Life of Remarkable People". He has read over 250 books in the series since 1998 and continues to read.
I am glad that students are also interested in this series.
March 27 marks 133 years since the birth of the famous native of our city, the "king of laughter" Arkady Averchenko (1880 - 1925).
"The greatest glory of the people is its writers" B. Johnson said
“The meaning of the ZhZL series is that through history and personalities
it reveals all the richness and diversity of the culture of the past.
Biographies of people who served the progress of mankind,
have great educational value.
D.S. Likhachev
Open these books and the world will open to you!
In preparing the material, information was used from the site of the publishing house "Young Guard" http://gvardiya.ru/shop/books/zh_z_l
Material prepared
leading librarian V.A. Sapegina.
November 15th, 2016 Regina Trypolets
"Those who do not remember their history are doomed to repeat it"
George Santayana, American philosopher and writer
"Flipping through the pages of memory"
It has historically happened for Russia, the autumn months of October and November are full of epochal dates. Library No. 9 supported the tradition of celebrating the October events with its library uniform. A review exhibition of books linked different periods of Russian history. The past centuries of a single state, in a single library, in the form of a modern form of source study - the Day of the Historical Book. This Day will last in the library until November 25, hurry up to get acquainted with the books of writers and publicists, different genres in the author's presentation of the historical events of the Russian State.
"History of Russia in novels"
Literary and historical exposition
The exhibition presents historical novels, novellas and stories created by authors whose talent made it possible to describe complex things simply and excitingly, without distorting the truth. The books reflected the entire rich and dramatic era of our country. Leafing through the books presented in the complex exposition at the exhibitions: "Journey to a long time ago"; "History in faces"; "Unity Forever", readers are presented with the opportunity to travel to different centuries. It is worth mentioning the works of some authors presented at the exhibition.
Fans of the history of Ancient Rus' will enjoy the book of the historian and writer Valentina Ivanova "Primordial Rus'", tells about the life of the ancient Slavs in the VI century. “At first, dry logs were put into the fire, and then the flames were extinguished with green grass. Kolot-sorcerer and Vseslav watched intently how the enchanted blades of grass were bent in the fire. Both devoutly believed in the truth of divination. And how not to guess about fate: the Khazars came very close ... "
One of the best novels Sergei Borodin "Dmitry Donskoy"- the first work from a series of historical novels on the history of medieval Moscow about the struggle of the Russian principalities under the leadership of the Moscow prince Dmitry Ivanovich against the yoke of the Tatar Golden Horde, the end of which was marked by the decisive battle on the Kulikovo field in 1380.
Seductive and secular, liberal and conservative, suspicious and deeply religious - the personality of Alexander I still causes many controversies. His reign began with one coup d'état and ended with another. He himself dreamed of changing his country, but he changed the world by defeating Napoleon's Grand Army, which was considered invincible. There were legends about his death that have not been refuted so far. Who is he, the tenth emperor of Russia? You can find the answer in the book Melnikova L.V. "Alexander 1 Emperor of Europe".
Balyazin V. N. "Nicholas I, his son Alexander II, his grandson Alexander III.". The unexpected death of Alexander I gave rise to a constitutional crisis. Alexander's elder brother, Constantine, renounced the right to inherit the throne. Alexander with a special manifesto announced the refusal of Constantine and the transfer of his rights to his younger brother, Nicholas. The content of the manifesto was kept secret. Even Nicholas did not know for sure whether he was appointed heir. The avalanche of state affairs that fell upon Nicholas did not take him by surprise. He was industrious, pedantic and persistent and considered the work on stationery one of his most important tasks. Nikolai closely followed the course of foreign affairs, did not disregard internal affairs, and spent many hours at parades and in the barracks. Nicholas reigned for nineteen years. After the death of Nicholas, the throne was inherited by his first-born, Alexander, who became an outstanding sovereign of Russia, the tsar-liberator, who put an end to the shameful serfdom. Alexander II was the undisputed head of the Romanov dynasty. In 1881, Alexander II was killed by a bomb thrown by a Narodnaya Volya. His son Alexander III became the new emperor. The death of his father left a heavy imprint on the character of the sovereign and his entire reign.
"Favorite"- historical novel Valentina Pikulya. It sets out a chronicle of the times of Catherine II. The novel consists of two volumes: the first volume is "His Empress", the second is "His Taurida". The novel reflects the most important events in the national history of the second half of the 18th century. In the center of the story is the image of the favorite of Empress Catherine II Alekseevna, commander Grigory Potemkin. Many pages of the novel are also devoted to other major historical figures of that time. The beginning of work on the first volume of the novel dates back to August 1976, the first volume was completed in November 1979. The second volume was written in just one month - in January 1982. Palace intrigues, a decline in morals at the Russian court, great military victories over Turkey and Sweden, diplomatic victories over almost all of Europe ... the uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, the founding of new cities in the south (in particular Sevastopol and Odessa) is an exciting and rich plot of a real historical novel.
Many believe that it will be very difficult for a "newcomer" to read Karamzin, but still … "History of Russian Goverment"- a multi-volume work by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, describing Russian history from ancient times to the reign of Ivan the Terrible and the Time of Troubles. Karamzin's work was not the first description of the history of Russia, but it was this work, thanks to the high literary merit and scientific scrupulousness of the author, that opened the history of Russia to a wide educated public and most contributed to the formation of national identity.
"Chronicler of the sovereigns of Moscow" - so they say about Dmitry Balashov. In a large-scale historical epic chronicle "Holy Rus'" from a cycle of novels D. Balashova "The sovereigns of Moscow”reflects the main historical events, the geopolitical position of Rus', the life of the main principalities, the life and customs of all classes, the fates, appearance and character of hundreds of historical figures from 1263 to 1425 are embodied. This volume includes the parts "Evening of Centuries" and "Steppe Sunset".
interesting book “Childhood in the royal house. How the heirs to the Russian throne were raised” by Vera Bokova. To be born into a royal family, according to many, is luck. But this luck turned into a heavy burden of duties at a very young age. What does it mean to be heir to the throne with an advance, from a very early age, to feel the responsibility that will fall on your shoulders in the future? How to educate someone who in a few years will receive unlimited power and will decide the fate of the world? How did the sons and daughters of the kings live, with whom did they make friends, what did they play, what did they read and how did they get used to their difficult duties, how did their relationship with their parents and educators develop, in what court festivities and ceremonies did they participate? The book of Vera Bokova is dedicated both to the royal offspring themselves and to those who carried out a special mission - they raised, taught and nurtured them.
Alexey Karpov. Yaroslav the Wise (Life of wonderful people)
Childhood, the earliest years, Yaroslav probably spent not in Kyiv itself, but in the nearby village of Predslavino, which belonged to his mother, Princess Rogneda. The village was located on the banks of the Lybid river, which flowed into the Dnieper. Now it can be said to be a stream, but during the time of Vladimir and Yaroslav Lybed was quite navigable. The view of the prince from the window of the mother's chamber could open not only the city suburbs, arable land and vegetable gardens, long mastered by the people of Kiev, but also the surface of the river, along which the prince's canoes, merchant boats and boats of commoners scurried every now and then - witnesses of that lively, never ending life that swirled around. Yaroslav's mother, Rogneda, until the time remained the beloved wife of Prince Vladimir. He clearly favored her for everyone, preferring her to his other wives and numerous concubines, was a frequent guest in her chambers and willingly stayed here for the night. Rogneda and bore him more children than the other four legitimate (or, in Russian, "led") wives of the prince - four sons and two daughters.
A series of books "Romanov Dynasty in novels" This series includes books that include novels dedicated to individual representatives of the royal dynasty that ruled Russia from the middle of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
This is only a small part of the books from all the book exhibits presented at the historical book exhibition.
Galina KOSHULINSKAYA, head of library No. 9
Details March 23, 2015The Fiction Subscription has prepared an exhibition of historical novels.
We call the artistic chronicle of the Fatherland the historical novels with which Russian literature is so rich. The pages of the novels vividly captured the past of our people, the images of our ancestors, the valiant sons of the Fatherland. At the exhibition you can see books from the "Monuments of Ancient Rus'" series, which contains the first artistic chronicle works of the 12th - 17th centuries. About Ancient Rus' is interestingly stated in the books of Valentin Ivanov ("Tales of Ancient Years", "Original Rus'" and "Great Rus'"). Dmitry Balashov has created a series of six books, The Princes of Moscow, which can also be found at the exhibition. The Golden Library of Historical Novels series is represented by novels about General Skobelev and the ruler Sofya Alekseevna. For those who are fond of the history of Central Asia, it will be interesting to open the trilogy of Sergei Borodin "Stars over Samarkand" and the collection "Tamerlane" from the series "Great rulers in novels".
The purpose of the exhibition is to once again remind our readers of the book treasures stored on our bookshelves. Someone will see a new book for themselves or meet a friend that they want to reread.
2017 is the centenary of the 1917 Revolution.
The centenary milestone is a landmark for historical memory.
In the Central Regional Library, for the anniversary date, the thematic book exhibition-controversy "Revolution in Russia: a look through the centuries."
In the section "Severe drama of Russia" literature on the history of the revolution is presented, which will help the reader form a true understanding of this event, its impact on society and world history:
"The Great October Socialist Revolution": Encyclopedia. - M.: Politizdat, 1977.-712 p.: ill.
Nenarokov, A.P. 1917. Great October: a brief history, documents, photographs / A.P. Nenarokov.- M .: Politizdat, 1977.-239 p.: ill.
"Philosophical ship"//Rodina.-No. 9, 2017. - S. 12-13.
"Patriot of the Fatherland" - №1, 2017
Theme of the issue: 2017 is the year of the centenary of the Great Russian Revolution.
In the section "The Image of the Revolution in Literature" you can get acquainted with the poems and prose of the most famous Russian writers, including Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Sholokhov. Readers will be happy to read the books of witnesses of those events, writers and poets, eyewitnesses of the revolution, who describe in their works the events of those years and how they affected the fate of ordinary citizens of Russia. For example, such as the novels of A. Fadeev "The Rout", K. Sedykh "Dauria", A. Tolstoy "Walking through the torments", A. Ivanov "The Eternal Call", M. Sholokhov "Virgin Soil Upturned" and "Quiet Don" and works by many other authors.
The exhibition will be of interest to students, as well as to anyone interested in the history of the country. Thanks to the selected literature, each reader has the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of the largest political event in the history of Russia in the twentieth century, which influenced the further course of world history.
The exhibition runs until mid-December. We invite you to view!
"If your name is Komsomol"
- this is the name of the exhibition-calendar for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Komsomol, designed in the reading room of the central regional library.
The exhibition presents Komsomol statutes, tickets, books, magazine and newspaper articles related to the history of the Komsomol and the stages of the historical path of our country, as well as articles from local periodicals about the Komsomol members of the region.
Of great interest is the already rare fiction and documentary literature about the Komsomol and its leaders from different eras.
For example, the exhibition presents the two-volume "Glorious Path of the Leninist Komsomol" published in 1974; "Leninsky Komsomol" v.1: Essay on the history of the Komsomol (1918 - 1941) 1969, etc.
The book “The Word about the Komsomol ticket”, published on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Komsomol, tells about the history of the Komsomol ticket, about the congresses and awards of the Lenin Komsomol, about the All-Union campaigns of youth in places of revolutionary, military and labor glory, about the affairs and people of the Komsomol.
The exhibition turned out to be colorful, rich and informative. It attracts the attention of readers and guests of the library, helps to plunge into the memories of youth, and tells the younger generation in detail and in an accessible way about the most massive youth organization of the Soviet era.
2016 has been declared the Year of Russian Cinema in Russia. In the reading room of the City Library. V. A. Chivilikhin arranged a book exhibition "History captured in the frame", dedicated to historical feature films and documentaries.
It's always interesting to compare a movie to a book. This book fair provides that opportunity. It presents books about the great commanders, rulers, famous travelers, scientists, writers and poets of Russia.
Our country is rich in worthy historical figures. A separate category of its famous representatives is occupied by the great commanders of Russia.
A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the book by K. Valishevsky "Peter the Great". It tells about the life and work of the first Russian emperor Peter I. The author, a well-known scientist (historian, economist, sociologist) of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, presents an alternative point of view on the events of that era, reflects on how the personality of the reformer tsar was formed , largely debunking the heroic image that is so well known to the Russian reader from school textbooks. Despite the fact that many of Valishevsky's assessments and conclusions may seem controversial today, "Peter the Great" will certainly interest all lovers of Russian history, primarily due to the huge amount of little-known factual material collected and presented in the book.
The exhibition also presents two volumes of a collection about the Soviet commander, four times Hero of the Soviet Union, the great commander, who remained in the history of Russia as one of the main creators of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, G.K. Zhukov. Both editions are called "Marshal Zhukov: commander and man", its compilers A.D. Mirkin and V.S. Yarovikov. The collections include memoirs and articles written by his relatives and friends, comrades-in-arms, and friends. Many of them took up the pen for the first time to help recreate the portrait of the great commander. The reader will see the whole life path of the marshal, many facts of his biography are mentioned for the first time.
D. Jena's book "Russian Queens" presents biographies not just of women, but of women rulers, women who made history and on whom the fate of people depended. Russian queens, and from the 18th century empresses, played a colossal role in the life of our country. This role was significant not only in the 18th century, which in the history of Russia became the century of female rule, but also in earlier periods. The seven wives of Ivan the Terrible, beloved, criminal, nameless in the "Third Rome", the wives of the tsars and emperors of the Romanov dynasty - all of them are presented on the pages of the book of the German historian Detlef Jena. The chosen genre - psychological history - leaves a unique imprint on the book. Bright, memorable images imprinted on its pages will not leave indifferent even the most sophisticated reader.
In folk memory, Yermak lives as an ataman-bogatyr, the conqueror of Siberia, a strong and invincible warrior, even despite his tragic death. Who was this man who led a handful of brave men, as the songs say, "to glory and to death"? What were they - the legendary free Cossacks? Readers will learn about this from B. A. Almazov’s book “Ermak Timofeevich - Prince of Siberia”. Boris Almazov is not only a talented writer, but also a well-known leader of the Cossack movement, chieftain. Therefore, in his novel, he describes the details of the life of the Cossacks in a particularly colorful and juicy way, shows what a huge role they played in the development of the Siberian expanses.
“He was extremely endowed with the subtlest sense of nature, the nature of Rus', Russia, the Motherland, which he infinitely, selflessly loved. Literally everywhere he did not part with Russia, he remembers her, talks about her. So the Russian Soviet poet Alexander Andreevich Prokofiev wrote about S. Yesenin. Articles, essays, sketches of this and many other Soviet poets, critics, writers can be read in the collection of articles "In the World of Yesenin", which is also presented at the book exhibition.
In the unfading constellation of heroes, the short life of the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, sparkles dazzlingly bright. The book from the Life of Remarkable People series, which is called Yuri Gagarin, will help readers learn something new about this wonderful person. It was written by V. Stepanova. The book contains extensive documentary material, an important place in which is occupied by the testimonies of Yuri Gagarin's close friends and associates, as well as the author's own memoirs, who personally knew the pioneer of space.
The book exhibition “History Captured in the Frame” will be of interest to many readers, because it presents literary publications that tell about people who have dedicated their lives to serving the Fatherland, and who, thanks to their abilities, certain circumstances and vocation, have left an indelible mark on the history of Russia.
