Biography series of ZhZL

Home "Personality against the background of the era." By the anniversary of the series “Life of wonderful people”, “The meaning of a series of ZhZL is that through history and personality it reveals all the wealth and diversity of the culture of the past. The biographies of people who served the progress of mankind are of enormous educational value ”D.

Likhachev the name“ Life of wonderful people ”, known today, is based on the title“ Vie des homes Illustres ”, under which the French translation of“ comparative vitality ”of Plutarch was published in the 19th century. This book was read out in the youth of Florenty Pavlenkov, which borrowed its name for his biographical series. The series "Life of wonderful people" was founded in the year by the publisher-educator Florenty Pavlenkov.

In the year after a break associated with revolutionary upheavals, the ZhZL series was revived by Maxim Gorky. From the year, the publishing house "Young Guard" took up its release. During the Great Patriotic War, the series was produced in a pocket format called "Great People of the Russian People." Among the authors of the ZhZL there are many famous people. There were cases when the author of the series later became her hero: these are the writers M.

Gorky and M. Bulgakov, the philosopher A. Losev, the intelligence officer I. Grigulevich, who published seven books under the pseudonyms I. Lavretsky and I. Kargalov, V. Kargalov, A. Karpov, A. The series of biographies, the reign of Grand Duke Yaroslav Vladimirovich is rightly called the Golden Age of Kyiv. Rus'. Perhaps the only one of the rulers of Russia was lucky to go down in history with the nickname "Wise" - perhaps the most flattering and most honorable for any state husband.

Anisimov, E. And indeed, in any other reign in Russia they did not like to have fun: to arrange fun and masquerades, balls and performances. But the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna is also twenty years of the history of Russia, which incorporated the discovery of Moscow University and the foundation of the Academy of Arts, the victory of Russian weapons in the seven -year war and the public punishment with a whip of recent secular beauties, shining at the court balls, the "case" of the Saltychikhi and the dushes Petersburg historian Evgeny Viktorovich Anisimov, in essence, the first biography of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, beloved daughter of Peter the Great in our country.

Rolls, L. series of biographies “Nikolai Palkin”, “Crowned Drummer”, “The Gendarme of Europe” - these and similar epithets regarding the “unsympathetic monarch”, according to one of the historians, firmly entrenched both in the mass consciousness and in historical science. Meanwhile, Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich was a far from a limited person and an outstanding statesman who, according to him, “our mother Russia”.

Pavlenko, N. Drozdova, I. Kolkin; N. Pavlenko, O. series of biographies. Karamzin of the associates of Peter I. But it is unlikely that the assessment of the great historian can be recognized as fair. The gift of Peter is known to guess the talents of the people around him and use them for the good of the state. And the reader will make sure that the associates of Peter had undoubted talents, having read the book proposed by his attention.

It is based on it - the study of N. to the reader who has stood several editions will be interesting to find out that both of these biographies were written by young researchers, students of the Georgian, R. Grusse; per. A series of biographies Author of this book is a famous orientalist, a member of the French Academy, thoroughly studied the ancient Ingol epic and other serious scientific sources, having gone through the roads and paths of the ancient Mongols, the Rogse gave his interpretation of life, as he writes, the conqueror of the Universe, one of the most famous people of the planet Genghishana, having described in his book the campaigns and war of Genghiskhan, the author of the Gengieskhin.

The same time creates a rather interesting psychological portrait of the hero, fascinating the reader with magnetism of the personality of Genghis Khan. Ippolitov, a series of biographies Anton Ivanovich Denikin is one of the colorful figures of Russian history. Awarded with a vivid general talent, he lived a difficult, full of drama life, which reflected the complex and contradictory reality of Russia of the late XIX and the first.

Ilyin, S. series of biographies, the first domestic scientific biography of S. Witte is recreated by a Moscow historian, professor S. Ilyin in the process of prolonged study of various and numerous documentary materials. The book conveys to the reader the aroma of the era, which has long gone and is still amazingly close, in some way that our time is consonant with. Balakin, V.

Friedrich Barbarossa is still ominous for most of our compatriots, since it is steadily associated with the notorious plan of Barbarossa Adolf Hitler and the Teutonic onslaught to the East, which brought so many misfortunes of Slavs both in the Middle Ages and in modern times. But the historical, and not the legendary emperor Frederick I Barbarossa - it turns out, has nothing to do with this: he fought a lot in Italy, participated in two crusades in the Holy Land, but almost did not encounter the Slavs.

He entered the history of Europe as an outstanding politician who for a while to unite under his rule almost half of Europe and restore the former significance of the Holy Roman Empire.

Gobri, I. Gobr; per. A series of biographies Book of Martin Luther - the ideologist of the Reformation and the founder of European Protestantism - belongs to the pen of the author -Catholic, which in itself is unusual. In many ways, this is a pamphlet biography; Its author sets himself the goal of understanding the causes of the destructive crisis that struck the Catholic Church in the 16th century, and explain the phenomenon of Luther, referring primarily to the characteristics of the psychological warehouse of the personality of the great reformer.

But at the same time, this is a scrupulous study based on a careful and, most importantly, critical study of all preserved sources, an attempt to free oneself from magic and looking at Martin Luther not as a legend, but as a living person with all his weaknesses and disadvantages. Penrose, R. A series of biographies The book “Picasso” is a biography of an outstanding artist of the 20th century.

It presents all the stages of the artist’s life, the origins of various directions in his work and analyzes the motives that encouraged the artist to change styles throughout his creative life. Pyphys, P. Pierre Bulfis's book is the most complete and detailed biography of the great French poet of Verlene Paul-Wenter, Skitalet, Simplez-and at the same time universally recognized “King of the Poets”, Verlaine “liberated” poetry and left behind the precious property of world literature.

The book contains a unique photograph. Many drawings and photographs are published in Russia for the first time. Zverev, A. Metamorphoses of the life and creative path of Vladimir Nabokov exactly repeat the metamorphoses of the time in which he had to live. The revolution, the outcome of the intelligentsia from Russia, the inability to live without a homeland and the inability to return to their homeland turned into the creative fate of Vladimir Nabokov, a brilliant stylist, the heir to the Pushkin tradition, forced, and then deliberate homelessness, the search for his place in someone else's cultural tradition and even the rejection of native speech as a means of self -expression.

The modern reader is all the more interesting to get the opportunity to get acquainted with the biography of Vladimir Nabokov that it belongs to the pen of the famous literary critic Alexei Zverev. Allen, G. Edgar in: biogr. Silishchev, post -out. A series of biographies about Edgar is written, among his biographies there are successful, less successful, speculative - different.

It is, of course, about the English -speaking world. But so far there has been not a single domestic biographical book. The author sees his task in understanding the writer, showing how and what circumstances, people and meetings influenced him, see what influenced the formation of his personality and stimulated creativity, how the plots were born, how the everyday life of a real person named Edgar Allan Poe proceeded.

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