Zhzl announcements. Life of wonderful people. Key life dates
Young guard- The publishing house was established in 1922 by decision of the 5th Congress of the Komsomol. At first it was the publishing house of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, and then - the book and magazine publishing house of the Central Committee of the Komsomol. In the 1930s, the publishing house was part of the OGIZ system. Publishing house profile: fiction, socio-political and popular science books, children's and youth magazines, almanacs, the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda", a series of biographical books "Life of Remarkable People" (ZhZL) and other serial publications.
In 1969 the publishing house was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In the mid-1970s, the publishing house operated 15 book editorial offices, and also published 14 magazines (“Young Communist”, “Komsomolskaya Zhizn”, “Young Guard”, “ Young Technician”,“ Young naturalist ”,“ Around the world”, “A peer”, “Student meridian”, “Counselor”, “Funny pictures”, “ Murzilka" and etc.). The volume of book production in 1973 was 360 book titles, circulation - over 43 million copies, one-time circulation of magazines - 25,900,000 copies. (see: TSB, vol. 16, p. 471).
There was Leningrad edition"Young Guard", and on some books both cities were placed on the title at the same time - in such cases this is indicated on our website in the descriptions of the corresponding books (marks in front of the name of the publishing house L.: and M.:-L.:)
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Department of fantasy MG was created during the Thaw years under the leadership of Sergei Zhemaitis, such unforgettable people as Bella Klyueva and Nina Berkova worked there. Unfortunately, by the beginning of the 1970s, this editorial staff was dispersed, and Vladimir Shcherbakov began to lead science fiction in MG, it was a sad period in the history of MG.
In 2008, Andrei Petrov, editor-in-chief of the Young Guard publishing house, said: “We have long enough reduced the number of published books. AT last years publishing house fought for the quality of products. Our policy is to publish fewer books, but those that everyone would talk about, that would win prestigious literary awards... And we don’t want to squeeze everything possible out of the book market.” (
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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 related to the life of Gaius Octavius - Caesar Octavian - Augustus, and looked into inner world 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 fiction work. 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 the participants in the defense, and on Emperor Nicholas I, and on the entire Russian society, and even on Europe at that time. But many of the most important events in the biography of the vice admiral before the dramatic events 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 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 the fact 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 currents, called "Slavophilism", - left a significant mark in 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 departure from life are mysterious. He tells about the mystery of Emperor Alexander in his book famous writer and publicist Alexander Arkhangelsky.
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- For more than two millennia, there have been disputes about the life and accomplishments of this man, who lived in the world for a short, but unusually bright life, 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 strict and general theory sustainability is recognized throughout the world, and the methods developed by Lyapunov underlie most contemporary research sustainability. 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 the Slavic academician B. M. Lyapunov.
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- Andrey Turkov, a well-known critic, literary critic, presents to the readers one of the first modern times biographies of Alexander Tvardovsky (1910-1971), 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 latter's relationship with 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.
Title "Life" wonderful 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 the most different 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 by O. Eremina and N. Smirnov "Ivan Efremov".
Author
Among the authors of ZhZL there are many famous people. 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 became about two thousand eminent figures different eras and countries. Several books are devoted to the most famous 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 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 help in translating and publishing books about their famous figures is provided by foreign countries— France, Germany, Norway, etc.
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. The constant interest of readers is caused by the books of Alexei Karpov about Ancient Russia. 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. AT Soviet time circulation of the series increased significantly: the circulation of the book by V. Kardashov "Rokossovsky" (1972) became a record, 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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M. GANAPOLSKY - At the microphone Alexei Venediktov, hello! Just Ganapolsky was Ksenia Larina, now he is Alexei Venediktov. I will carry out this transfer in force, again, of all our internal, there, technical necessary moments, dear friends. But, as far as I remember, when, there, Maya Peshkova ... good afternoon, again!
M. PESHKOVA - Hello!
M. GANAPOLSKY - ... led this program, and I vaguely remember what is happening there. If I don't remember, tell me, okay?
M. PESHKOVA - Absolutely.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Friends, today in the Book Casino we have new books from the ZhZL series, Life of Remarkable People, plus other books, and of course, all this is the Young Guard publishing house, and we have Young Guards, Here they are in our studio. It is with pleasure that I present them to you: Andrey Petrov, editor-in-chief of the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house - hello, Andrey!
A. PETROV - Good afternoon!
M. GANAPOLSKY - Good afternoon! Deputy director of the "Young Guard" Sergei Bigovchiy. Hello!
S.BIGOVCHII - Hello!
M. GANAPOLSKY - Hello, very nice! And historian, professor of the State Pedagogical University, author of the book "Witte" historian Sergei Ilyin.
S.Ilyin - Hello!
M. GANAPOLSKY - Good afternoon! Let's start. I understand, Maya, that first we ask questions, yes, for which people will receive books?
M. PESHKOVA - Yes, we will ask questions in order to have time to prepare and answer these questions.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, good. So, the first question. Look: for what Witte got ... what?
M. PESHKOVA - Count's title.
M.GANAPOLSKY - A. For which Witte received the title of count. Second question: where is Witte buried? And the third question, it is not connected with Witte, but it sounds like this: in what novel by Dumas is the story of the “iron mask” played out?
M. PESHKOVA - Our listeners already know the answer to this question, I am convinced.
A. PETROV - The main thing is that this question is also connected with the book of the series "The Life of Remarkable People".
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, of course, we will tell about it now.
M. PESHKOVA - And here I immediately have a question for the editor-in-chief. Andrei Vitalievich, why did you decide to publish The Iron Mask?
A. PETROV - Well, I would probably say that it was, in general, a dream. First, we all...
M. PESHKOVA - Since childhood, as I understand it?
A. PETROV - All of us from childhood, including the "Young Guards" who have read the novels of Alexandre Dumas - I will not say which ones, so as not to help our readers. But the story is amazingly interesting. First they read Dumas, then they read the studies of Anatoly Petrovich Lewandovsky, with whom we are very friends - an honored worker of science of Russia. He has his own version of the "iron mask". Well, finally, a book appeared in France, and with the French, with a number of publishing houses - Ekho Moskvy knows this, we probably often said that we are friends with Ashett, Fayar, Flammarion ... The fact is that a completely wonderful book was published there, the translation from which we present, this is a real biographical detective story. I would say, out of more than 1,200 books of biographies in the series “The Life of Remarkable People”, a book has already been published, and for the first time such a book, a little bit new in genre, appears - this is such a biographical detective study. Any reader who gets acquainted with this book, will read it, will not regret it. That's for sure. Well, here are the first readers - someone will win at the "Echo of Moscow" and, it seems to me, they will appreciate it.
M. PESHKOVA - I must say that in your store, in your "Sloboda", yes, the Young Guard "Sloboda" - this is your company store - a week ago this book was not there.
A. PETROV - And these are practically signals, what we represent. Few stores have these books available yet. They will arrive starting next week, but in general, these are super-new items, hot items.
M. PESHKOVA - I want to say that the "Young Guard" has its own bookstore ...
A. PETROV - "Book Sloboda".
M. PESHKOVA - It's called "Book Sloboda". It is located very close to the publishing house. Those. you need to run across the yard ... i.e. bake a book, run across the yard, bring it to the store - just like a book can be sold out. Do you use it?
A. PETROV - Well, of course, we try, and in general, we nurture and cherish our bookstore. He grew up recently. Maya, you probably saw what, in my opinion, there is a very interesting design, where ...
M.PESHKOVA - The design is very beautiful.
A. PETROV - Yes. And "ZhZL" books, and books of our other well-known series " Everyday life humanity”, higher than human growth, so to speak, meet our readers. And new items, probably the most convenient way - and not only new items, by the way - to buy there. Who is looking for old books of the ZhZL series, which are already difficult to get, the circulation of which has ended - also contact our bookstore. It is easy to remember: “Knizhnaya Sloboda” precisely because it is near the Novoslobodskaya metro station, a stone's throw, literally, from Novoslobodskaya.
M. GANAPOLSKY - And I want to tell you that I am very grateful to the Young Guard publishing house, only ... well, like, that, that, many years ago. The fact is that I was very fond of science fiction books, and I could not buy them - I lived in Kyiv, and it was impossible there. One could subscribe to the newspaper "Radyanska Ukraina", and "Silske Zhittya", as it was called. But fantasy was difficult. And once it so happened that I was in a city with an incredible name - Uryupinsk. So, I was in the real city of Uryupinsk. Going into a bookstore - and remember, there was then a subscription department. Here, you can subscribe.
A. PETROV - Well, in Uryupinsk, I don't know anything.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Here I am telling you. And there was a section...
A. PETROV - No, you say that in Uryupinsk ... (laughs)
M. PESHKOVA - You probably only know the Kuznetsk bridge, where you could sign, right, Andrey Vitalievich?
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, and I see a pink little book, it says "Library of Modern Science Fiction." Here, many of our radio listeners know. I subscribed and received all 15 volumes. Then, however, there was another continuation, to which I could not subscribe, because I was not in the city of Uryupinsk at that moment. Therefore, at my home, here, these volumes are lovingly preserved, from which I learned amazing times - there, all sorts of Simakovs, Sheckleys and ... Harrison, etc.
A. PETROV - Well, you were lucky, because it was just necessary to find yourself in Uryupinsk at the right moment ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - In Uryupinsk, yes, yes.
A. PETROV - Because, yes, really ... here, Kuznetsky Most, store 20, in my opinion, if I'm not mistaken.
M. PESHKOVA - Yes, the 20th store.
A. PETROV - So, the 20th store. Then, after all, it was useless, in fact, for both Muscovites and residents of Uryupinsk ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes.
A. PETROV - ... to visit this store. It was impossible to subscribe.
M. PESHKOVA - Why? Survive the night ... a number on your hand ... check in.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, what a number! Everything was crazy there!
A. PETROV - There were numbers in advance, in my opinion, everything ...
S. BIGOVCHII - There was a queue. I served there as a janitor in 86, and ...
A. PETROV - And you were touched to the quick, I feel.
S. BIGOVCHII - If you get up at 5 am, you could sign.
M. GANAPOLSKY - It was possible, right? Well, I have to you general question. The publishing house "Young Guard", such a publishing house with traditions, and it has always been precisely the "Young Guard". You know, that's how ... it would seem, the Komsomol - it was ... was it like they said? There, something like a party - as they said, what about the Komsomol, what was there?
M. PESHKOVA - The party will order, the Komsomol will answer "yes!".
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes. I must say that in terms of literature, Young Guard was still different from the publication, there, Party Life or whatever else there were, these pahab publishing houses, in which it is not known which books were so thick on the shelves, while they were thrown away...
A. PETROV - Well, I would say, by the way, the "Young Guard" often flew in, in general, there were very difficult situations and ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - Here, here.
A. PETROV - And you can't even list them all. And, so to speak, the circulations that were issued under the knife were also destroyed - I very much, so to speak, well remember the history of the book “The Kingdom is not of this world”, written about the Vatican, and a number of others. As for ZhZL's publications, it is no coincidence that they were so, well, practically semi-banned. Who remembers the peak of interest in reading - not like now, unfortunately - it means that when many bookstores had exchange shelves, i.e. books have changed.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, yes, yes.
A. PETROV - That's when for ZhZL-ovsky publications - say, for Nathan Eidelman's book "Lunin" or for Lebedev's book about Chaadaev - well, you could exchange almost everything in the world, including all kinds of detective stories and ... And "Young Guard" - who first discovered Agatha Christie to our readers? Means, " foreign detective» 63-65 years, which are also bibliographic rarities - they first appeared there, which means that the stories of Agatha Christie appeared. This is the "Library of Soviet Science Fiction" - that's what it was then called. I don't mean a subscription library, but a series, so to speak.
M. GANAPOLSKY - These were separate books, yes.
A. PETROV - Separate books. Of course, not all of them were there, so to speak, equivalent - there were interesting publications, there were, perhaps, not very good ones, and the time was different. In general, I would suggest all the same "Young Guard" publications, there from the 60s - 50s they should not be evaluated on a modern scale, because it would somehow be wrong. But for that time, Young Guard was in many ways, so to speak, a door to the world, in fact, an interesting one, and it was not such a publishing house, which means it was purely party - so save and save. In fact, there were a lot of interesting things there. And what happened in ZhZL, what battles went on, how they wrote ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - And I, excuse me, I just want to finish this topic, as it were, about the publishing house itself, I want to ask you, Andrey, and you, Sergey: if we talk about the current state "Young Guard", what is your feature? Is that what makes you different from everyone else?
S. BIGOVCHII - An interesting and high-quality book. We have ... well, quite a lot of books are being made, but all of them are being made for a very long time. Approximately the process, when the author brings the manuscript after the signed contract, it takes us about 9 months. This is usually ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - Oh-oh-oh, why?
S. BIGOVCHII - Editing, proofreading, scientific editing, writing the preface and afterword. This is serious, big work.
A. PETROV - Well, here it is important that the listeners correctly understand what Sergey Alexandrovich is talking about.
S. BIGOVCHII - Good cheese cannot be made in three days. Exactly the same good book- need time.
A. PETROV - Well, you understand, you said about the chip - after all, in fact, "Young Guard", on the one hand, in the minds of the vast majority of readers and listeners - this is a solid company. Well, we will celebrate 85 years next year, our books are known in almost every newspaper "Book Review" or "Ex-Libris", which means that information about our books and detailed articles are given. On the other hand, we publish much less than such whales as AST, tam, Olma-press, Eksmo, and so on. - Approximately 100-odd books a year, 10 books a month. But every book, in fact, I would say, and every book is a feature. So, whether it is the ZhZL series, whether it is a memoir series, whether it is the Daily Life of Mankind series, or individual one-time publications. And in general, the book, it seems to me, in the Young Guard, thank God, is taken very seriously. In fact, there, proofreaders read it four times, artists puzzle over how best to make the design - this, probably, is the whole point when a book is treated as a cultural product.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Now, in fact, today we have a program devoted to the book "Witte", such a ... such, absolutely significant person for Russian history, to the surname, to which we always return for one reason or another. Well, and probably, we will give the floor to Sergei Ilyin, historian, professor at the State Pedagogical University. Well, what to ask? I don't know what inspired you to write this book? Does Witte's portrait hang on the wall in your house?
S. ILYIN - No, I don't have a portrait of Witte hanging at home. Of course, the questionnaire is missing one thing, the very important issue, but I don’t know if readers will answer it or not ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, let them be tormented by these questions.
S. ILYIN - Yes, let them suffer. What is the inscription on Witte's gravestone?
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, tell me. We didn't ask.
S. ILYIN - I will say with pleasure: "October 17". Few people know that Witte was the author of the first Russian constitution in our country, although the Manifesto itself on October 17, it had no direct effect, as you know, but nevertheless, there were ... in the preamble of the Manifesto there was such a phrase that I can reproduce from memory , so, to quote, and I vouch for the accuracy. That “we entrust to our government the fulfillment of our inexorable will. That we have a legislative parliament, freedoms and the expansion of voting rights. So like this. In my opinion, this date should be celebrated.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, tell me, if there is ... Well, by the way, it was possible to celebrate Constitution Day in this way.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, yes, that's how it is possible. Well... Tell me, Sergei, but Witte - what would you say most importantly about him? That, perhaps, is reflected in your book.
S. ILYIN - He was a smart man, passionate, not indifferent - that's the most important thing.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Was he a statesman?
S. ILYIN - Of course.
M. GANAPOLSKY - In this real understanding?
S. ILYIN - Of course.
M. GANAPOLSKY - And what are the features of a statesman in the true sense? Well, for example, here are the Tyutkins, Pupkins, who, there, sit somewhere and do something there - and Witte. What did Witte have that our current ... our current workers in Russia do not have?
S. ILYIN - Well, I can cite one fact, recorded in the sources. Witte was very worried when he learned that Russian soldiers wounded in Manchuria were being taken to Chelyabinsk without a change of linen. I repeat, the Russian wounded - the wounded in Manchuria - are taken to Chelyabinsk, i.e. returned to their homeland, without a change of linen. Can you imagine what it is?
M. PESHKOVA - And what did he do?
S. ILYIN - Didn't do anything, he was worried. Because the authorities...
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, we have all our statesmen very worried about the country. You have no idea, they just die.
S. ILYIN - I just don't know any facts.
M. GANAPOLSKY - You just sit in the dacha on Rublyovka and worry, you have no idea what is happening to them there. Don't eat straight. Caviar does not fit into the mouth.
S. ILYIN - How interesting, yes.
A. PETROV - Excuse me, but an interesting thought came to me - we talked about second-hand bookshops, about books - after all, in Soviet times, when, well, it was not particularly supposed to somehow remember either Stolypin or Witte, after all, a three-volume book Witte was then published.
S. ILYIN - In 56 or 60 ... 61st.
A. PETROV - Yes. It was the beginning of the 60s, and by the way, I was then - not then, in 61, but, so to speak, a little later, when I had to study at the Faculty of History - I was struck by many of those very caustic characteristics that Sergey Yulievich, therefore, gave , here…
S. ILYIN - Classic characteristics. Sovereign Emperor - below the average mind, below the average ability, below the average education.
A. PETROV - As for the generals who participated in the Russo-Japanese War. There, so to speak, and Kuropatkin fell under the hot hand, and the rest. Here, by the way, may be an interesting question: but for Witte for such freedom, it means that the expression of his thoughts, in general, did not fly in, did not fall, so, in the course of, so to speak, career growth? How did it react in general?
S. ILYIN - In what sense, did not fly in, did not hit?
A. PETROV - Well, in general, after all, Witte has an amazing, it seems to me, in fact, an amazing biography - for one person to hold such respectable posts - this is the manager of the Ministry of Railways ... Therefore, by the way, on our book Railway depicted on the cover. This is the Minister of Finance, where there were amazing, that means, also, so to speak, innovations under Witte, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. But here, this career growth - it seems to me that readers would be interested - it went somehow smoothly, it went on all the time ... so, so to speak, it was such an ascending line, or ... it seems to me, the topic that we touched on - and now, about the current ones - after all, there is already a lot of behind-the-scenes struggle, there, it means, they are trying to break someone, to put someone, that means, in this place. But how was it in the time of Sergei Yulievich Witte?
S. ILYIN - Well, according to formal signs, he achieved everything that one could wish for. The Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, the Minister of Finance is a key post.
A. PETROV - I mean, did he have any competitors? It seems to me ... maybe they are not telling the truth - here, the hosts will correct me - but it seems like always in the state, whether under the president or under the prime minister, there are some parties, so to speak, there are some, so to speak, lobbies, someone is trying, here ... And how was it at that time? So Sergei Yulievich Witte had some, maybe, in fact, so to speak, competitors in the appointment of the chairman of the council of ministers? Only the tsar-father decided there only this question or ...?
S. ILYIN - He was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers when it seemed to many that everything was collapsing in our country. There were even, as you know, plans for the evacuation of the royal family. This was in October 1905.
A. PETROV - That is. few people wanted to go there, to the chairmen of the council of ministers?
S. ILYIN - We had no competitors for the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers. And the Manifesto on October 17, i.e. the first constitution in our history, which became a fact, he pushed through in the full sense of the word. If not for him, then there would be no constitution, and in general, it would not be clear what is in our state. So he can be quite called the savior of Russia - this is my sincere opinion.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, I'll start from what Alexander asked: political life of that time, in terms of atmosphere, intrigues, undercover struggle, was it similar to the current one, or differed somehow ... well, I don’t know, some kind of more principled or less principled?
S. ILYIN - Well, I can't compare, because I am completely ignorant of the current intrigues. Totally uninformed. But there was enough intrigue, there was enough intrigue. Sergei Yulievich got it.
M.GANAPOLSKY - That is. Is he like this, Gref and Kudrin?
S. ILYIN - I can't compare either with Gref or Kudrin. At least, in terms of the scale of what he did, even in the field of finance, he has no equal. And in modern history…
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, could he be called a liberal or a conservative?
S. ILYIN - Well, it can be said that the liberal policy was carried out by conservative hands.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, our time ...
S. ILYIN - After all, he was an adherent of the autocracy.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Our time. Nowadays.
S. ILYIN - Yes. An adherent of autocracy as a principle.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Pro-presidential opposition. Yes? Quite, quite.
S. ILYIN - You know better.
A. PETROV - Well, I agree with the author, it’s just, in fact, it’s quite difficult to compare with Kudrin and Gref, as Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin said, you can’t see a face face to face, you can see big at a distance, and, by the way, is it big it will turn out to be what is happening now, or not so big. Witte has already deserved for the time that has passed, in general, it is, as it were, quite obvious what kind of resonance his activities brought to Russia, and his name will remain.
M. GANAPOLSKY - You know, the book is about Witte and what we are now talking about the figure of Witte, it makes us or invites us to think about this topic - the topic is not about Witte, but on the topic of how a person can leave his mark in history, what qualities Witte had that allowed him to win not tactically, but strategically. Because I think it's a strategic victory when a person's name is repeated many years after his death, and when his life is considered as some kind of historical and state experience, right? What qualities did he have that allowed him to remain in history?
S. ILYIN - Character, passion ... well, what other qualities?
A. PETROV - Well, it still seems to me that we are forgetting his main quality ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - He was… excuse me, I will ask this question: was he corrupt?
S. ILYIN - I think that ...
A. PETROV - It seems to me that this was a real man who loved his homeland. It seems to me that this is one of the main qualities that any politician should possess. And a politician can be very smart, very, very smart, but at the same time, if he does not love his homeland passionately, I apologize for the high calm, then this mind can be, you know, somehow, used for everyone. As for Witte, it seems to me that there is no doubt that this man was in fact in love with Russia and who wanted precisely Russia, so to speak, the good and greatness of Russia. So, as for the activities of many other people who came, there, later Witte, who, there ... well, there are big doubts. I often have no doubts about their great mind, yes, but as for their love and thoughts about Russia, I'm not sure that they stay up at night thinking about it.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, I have… well, I will have a question for you, but it will be right after the news. Short news - let's continue.
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M. GANAPOLSKY - We will now talk about other books, but I don’t want to part with Sergei Ilyin, the author of the book Witte. You know, when we talk about the bureaucratic class, then, of course, everyone ... well, there is this official - this is the person who is in some relationship with the state. Only sometimes he loves, as it were, Russia in himself, sometimes himself in Russia. Now, ask any of our officials now, he will explain that he loves Russia very much, but the fact is that he will say: “Well, you see, I am here turning over millions of state fortunes, well, and somehow it’s no longer fashionable to be the poor." Therefore, all sorts of financial reports have recently been published, how much our government officials have, which the society has brought to a state of support. Or, there, what was stolen from Slizka, where did Slizka come from - well, etc. Not the topic of our program, but ... I understand that Witte was a fairly wealthy person. Here is the security of a person who must go to public service, is it mandatory, then he will not steal? Here, using the example of Witte, is this how those officials differed from the current ones?
S. ILYIN - I will not talk about officials, but it is known for sure that Witte did not steal. He built a house for himself on Kamennostrovsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg with the money that he received from the Sovereign Emperor for many years and very successful management of the Ministry of Finance. This is 400 thousand rubles. Well, the house, it cost about 50 thousand, according to my estimates, then he gave a dowry to his daughter at the reception, also several tens of thousands. And lived on the rest of the money. Those. he had no estates, and in general, there was no rent either.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes.
M. PESHKOVA - And I have a different question: what was the relationship between Stolypin and Witte?
S. ILYIN - Very difficult one time they almost got to a duel when ...
M. PESHKOVA - Why did they want to fight?
S. ILYIN - When Witte refused to shake the hand that Stolypin extended to him. Witte's main claim, as I imagine, to Stolypin was the very approach to agrarian reform. For Witte, the main thing was that the peasants were equalized in civil rights with other estates of the Russian Empire. And for Stolypin, the main thing was to give them land. Here is the difference in approaches. How can private ownership of land be introduced if the owners do not have full civil rights - this is incomprehensible to me. And Stolypin, it seems to me, did not quite understand this. And Witte understood this very well.
M. PESHKOVA - And what surprises me: why has Witte's biography not yet been included in the ZHZL series?
S. ILYIN - Well, in the ZhZL series for a long time there was no biography, for example, of Lenin.
M. PESHKOVA - I understand.
S. ILYIN - Too large figure, too complex figure. And, for the reasons for which Andrey Vitalievich spoke, probably, the leaders of that time did not approve of the creation of such biographies. And now freedom. Biography of Lenin published ...
A. PETROV - Enlightened freedom.
S. ILYIN - Yes. Here ... Witte's biography ...
S. BIGOVCHII - We have many more biographies to be written…
M. PESHKOVA – Maya, this is the question that I love the most. For a second, literally, I will interrupt ... For the "Young Guard" all his life, the main thing has always been not only the hero of the book, but the main thing is the performance. Therefore, we so clearly imagine who we still lack from such figures that are of great interest to our readers and listeners.
M. PESHKOVA - Excuse me, you have a list hanging in your office, like a list of typhoons - this is such a name, is this? And, accordingly, you wait until the author appears who will write?
A. PETROV - No, that's not the point, it's just ... I want to say, it always offends me - for us, for a long time, the uniform worked, now it's a short time, which means it has stopped its work. A lot of letters, actually. And he always offends when the reader's proposals are without the name, as it were, of the performer: “Why haven't you published, there, a biography of such and such?” Yes, because well, there is no good biography of such and such, and there is no person who could, therefore, write it well. By the way, we have been waiting for a biography, there, Akhmatova is already, there, waiting for 10 years - there were a lot of options, so to speak, so to speak. Therefore, according to Witte, it so happened that there was, in fact, no good biography.
M. GANAPOLSKY - And I have a question for you, again, about this series of ZhZL. How does it work? You have a figure and you are looking for an author for it, or a person comes to you who says: "Here, I know everything about Akhmatova, let's write a book."
A. PETROV - It turns out this way and that way. As the editor-in-chief, it is easy for me to answer this question. There is a whole set of people where the publishing house would very much like to find a worthy author, so we are looking for, we follow magazine publications, which means we work in libraries, there, on the Internet. And an attempt to find, in fact, an interesting author. Maybe, so to speak, unexpectedly interesting, because it does not always happen that a biography in the ZhZL series can be written, here, as it were, the most, there, necessarily a doctor of science or, so to speak, in the ideal case, in general, an academician . It happens that ... well, a typical example is still with Bykov, who, there, collected all the awards this year. In my opinion, it turned out very interesting biography Pasternak, although few, therefore, expected this. Here, but very often the opposite happens, when we are addressed, letters, fragments of manuscripts come, and, therefore, with requests to publish in the ZHZL series. And not only from within Russia, because there are a lot of proposals from Ukraine, from Belarus.
M. GANAPOLSKY - And I also have a question for you, I’m also interested: how many books are there in the ZHZL series?
A. PETROV - Well, the total number of books in the Life of Remarkable People series, if you count, then, from the 200-volume series - well, not 200-volume, 200-book, probably, after all, these were brochures larger than Florenty Pavlenkov - there are already 1250 of them, approximately. In fact, there are already more than a thousand “Young Guards”.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Now look, this is a question for backfilling. Let's imagine... well, I'm speaking conditionally.
A. PETROV - Yes.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Imagine that a book was published, for example, "Shchors". I do not know whether it was published or not, but I conditionally call it.
A. PETROV - Yes, yes, yes.
M. GANAPOLSKY - The book "Shchors". It was published, of course - well, suppose - during the years of Soviet power, right? It is clear that you will not find the truth in this book, and it is clear what Shchors, etc., is there. and in general, what is written there. These are the people to whom the ZhZL books were dedicated under the Bolsheviks - do you have plans after all, well, to put things in order here?
A. PETROV - I understand your question, I understand your question. So, the fact is that you will not find the truth there very often, not only about Shchors - I again conditionally, just like you, I call it - but you know, no matter how, don’t laugh, but there is also about Turgenev, there sometimes about Dostoevsky , so to speak, too.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Clearly, yes.
A. PETROV - Therefore, we have already announced many times in the press, and on radio, on television that we in the ZHZL series do not follow the principle of children's loto, when one cell and one, so to speak, card closes this cell. We have already dedicated to Pushkin, which means there are about five books - again, if you count from Pavlenkov. There we have articles by Shchogolev, which means the 30s, and Leonid Grossman, and Tyrkova-Williams, i.e. completely different biographies, but they are all interesting in their own way. About Dostoevsky, I would say, if not diametrically different biographies, then still very different - this is the book of Leonid Grossman, again, and the book of Yuri Seleznev. Therefore, henceforth...
M.GANAPOLSKY - That is. clear. In principle, it will be republished.
A. PETROV - Of course, of course. And we are now looking, by the way, for authors for, here, the Red Guard, and, maybe you will be surprised, maybe not - you know, there are much more proposals for, there, Denikin, Kolchak, Kornilov, Yudenich and further down the list, but why - few people want to write about Frunze, there, Tukhachevsky, etc. from new positions. But we will look, such books will appear, and any ... any time has, except, so to speak, the highest truth, after all, any time also has some kind of, so to speak, its own truth, so I'm not sure what it means , all our books, all "ZhZL" editions for a hundred years will be, as it were, the highest bar, so to speak. Probably, so to speak, those who will come after us ...
M. GANAPOLSKY - I see. One last question from me before we move on to the announcement. So, look: do you publish those who have died, or have you had cases when you were alive?
A. PETROV - This question became topical, literally, a year and a half ago, because before that it was not relevant, and we answered very easily: yes, only those who reposed, because the seven Greek sages taught “observe the end of life”, it is not a complete biography if it is a biography of a living person. But now the answer to this question is not so simple. By popular demand, we have opened another series that is very similar. It also has the heading "ZhZL: Biography continues." Here, as it were, the emphasis is still on "biography continues." Therefore, there is a certain satellite series, let's call it that, which is dedicated to people, and now living.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Well, for example?
A. PETROV - So, from the books published this is a biography of Valery Georgievich Gazaev, this is a biography of Boris Gromov. This means that now these are the biographies of Primakov, which means that they are literally on the way out, and, in my opinion, a very interesting, in my opinion, biography of Andrei Konchalovsky will soon be published. Yes, there is, in general, a lot of things, there are extensive plans, there are also translated books.
M. GANAPOLSKY - But it was written by third-party authors, right? Those. Primakov is not an autobiography, it is precisely...
A. PETROV - No, no, we are talking about biographies, and not about autobiographies, so to speak, respectively, these are biographies. Moreover, just like the “Lives of Remarkable People” series, these are not only laudatory books, and not only, therefore, biographies are necessarily with a “plus” sign, but this ... here, there will be biographies-pamphlets, and therefore ... it means , about people who have shown themselves, let's say, more with a minus sign, maybe.
M. GANAPOLSKY - I remind you that we have Andrey Petrova, editor-in-chief of the Young Guard publishing house, Sergey Bigovchiy, deputy director of the same publishing house, and Sergey Ilyin, historian, professor at the State Pedagogical University, author of the book Witte. We are talking about new books in the ZhZL series and not only. Mayai?
M. PESHKOVA - I wanted to ask: for the centenary of Shostakovich, you published a book about him in ZhZL. Why did you choose this particular author?
A. PETROV - Well, the fact is that the only drawback, in my opinion, of this book is that, unlike the vast majority of others, this is not a novelty, but a reprint. This means that this book, by Krzysztof Meyer, has already been published in St. Petersburg, by the Kompozitor publishing house. So, we decided to re-release. In my opinion, there is no more complete, detailed biography of Shostakovich today. There is a very interesting book in England - it was our dream with Sergei Alexandrovich, that is, to publish a book about Shostakovich. Very interesting, curious, but rather, this is not a biography, after all, but a memoir, something similar to, for example, the Veresaev edition.
S. BIGOVCHII - And then, Meyer, who is also a student of Shostakovich, this is really, to date, the most detailed biography of the great composer. And then, here we have an afterword by Svyatoslav Igorevich Belz, whom I pursued for six months, so that he would write it to us.
A. PETROV - Well, the biography has already been recognized - after all, it was published both in German and in Polish, and in Russian already twice. This is a classic, as they say, a classic of the biographical genre. That's why, it seems to me, here ...
M. PESHKOVA - There is another book on the gaming table that worries me a lot - this is Blake's book. How did you receive it?
A. PETROV - How did we get it? Here, it’s very simple: when there are books about scouts, there probably isn’t much to spread here. Here, the "Young Guard" worked in this capacity. This means that this is already a modern detective, in contrast to the biography of the Iron Mask. George Blake made an indelible impression on many Young Guards. It seems to me that, in fact, these were very interesting meetings at the Young Guard publishing house, we have already had it several times. Maybe we will continue with him - I would, in any case, be pleased - to continue further cooperation with him. I think it's very interesting person, and an interesting fate, but in general, we have every book after all, it seems to me - not only about George Blake - very interesting. And new editions of the memoirs of Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, which have just been published, and a book about the artist Mavrina, which we now have, here, on the gaming table in our Casino.
M. PESHKOVA - Then please reveal one more secret.
A. PETROV - Yes.
M. PESHKOVA - Series "Case number". These are books about scouts. I was a witness to the interest with which this particular series was enjoyed by the Chinese, how they approached your stand. It was impossible to get close to you, you were busy all the time, it was impossible to talk to you - you seemed to be telling the Chinese about books about intelligence officers all the time. Is it so?
A. PETROV - You know, I was just very pleased to be in China. I did not expect. I was told a lot of good things about Beijing, about China, about the Chinese love for books, I met several Beijing delegations at the Young Guard, who impressed me, so to speak, with their intellect and philosophy, philology, history. And I had to make sure, and I am happy about this, in Beijing, what a huge interest, in general, in our book. Basically, this is an interest in the Soviet period. This is a great interest in what is called such a defense area - this is intelligence, and the FSB, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so the "Case Number" series was most welcome here. But Maya, I would not only correct you, as it were, but supplement: that enormous interest that was, say, in Russian and Soviet writers from Peking University, when books were stolen from the hands - both Basinsky about Gorky, and Losev about Joseph Brodsky, so I’m even ashamed to this day - I couldn’t give you just a book about Brodsky in Beijing ...
M. PESHKOVA - Oh, they promised!
A. PETROV - ...because he was forced to donate to Peking University, and, therefore, he postponed this act of donation until later. And many other books, simply, in general, in the East there is a huge interest in our book. Unfortunately - I have something to compare with, because a year ago we were in Paris - this is heaven and earth. Because, by the way, in the West, it seems to me that, firstly, our literature is perceived rather one-sidedly. Well, I don’t like everything in the perception, which means that it is the Western reader, when even artists, and therefore writers, are often named as the most famous in Russia, the names, therefore, of the authors of comics. As a Russian publisher, this is very unpleasant for me. As for Beijing, I would say that everything is more on its feet than on its head. There true values, in general, somehow the Chinese people somehow understand with everything. Well, here, such a militaristic bias and espionage, regarding the Case Number series - this is a little bit present. But in general, Chinese book publishing is now experiencing a real flourishing.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, dear friends and colleagues! We have 3 minutes left. Here, however, Alexander asked: “If we take characters with a minus sign, will Beria’s biography be published?” What do you think about this?
A. PETROV - Who's biography?
M. GANAPOLSKY - Beria.
S. BIGOVCHII - Beria.
M. PESHKOVA - Lavrenty Pavlovich.
S. BIGOVCHII - Life will show.
A. PETROV - Well, you know, I wouldn't want to. Life will show, probably, it will be published. In general, I usually speak somehow, so that later the biographies of, here, the recently departed people. And Beria left relatively recently - anyway, not much time has passed yet.
S. BIGOVCHII - But Nero will be released in December. Brilliant work.
A. PETROV - That's a very good answer...
M. GANAPOLSKY - Now I understand when Stalin will come out and when Beria will come out. So, listen: how do we end? Are you announcing something?
M. PESHKOVA - Yes, I will tell you who became the winners.
M. GANAPOLSKY - Thank you very much, dear friends! Andrey Petrov, editor-in-chief of the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, Sergey Bigovchiy, deputy director of the Molodaya Gvardiya, Sergey Ilyin, historian, professor at the State Pedagogical University, author of the book Witte. And wonderful. Maya Peshkova, thank you very much, our book genius.
A. PETROV - Thank you, Matvey!
M. GANAPOLSKY - Yes, we continue. Read books - the source of titles, as one humorist in the Crocodile magazine of the 70s said. Thank you very much, see you soon!
A. PETROV - All the best!
