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The Open Joint-Stock Company “Molodaya Gvardiya” is one of the most famous publishing and printing associations in our country consisting of publishing house, printing house, bibliographic information center, center of commercial activity and “Book Sloboda” store.
“Molodaya Gvardiya” was founded in 1922 and at present it offers the widest range of humanitarian literature. These are books of the world-famous biographical series ‘Life of Outstanding People” (“ZHZL”), original historical investigations in “Living History: Daily Life of Mankind” series; memoirs and epistolary heritage of famous writers, philosophers, artists, musicians, theatre workers, representatives of creative bohemia in “Near Past” memoirs library; biographies of our outstanding contemporaries in “ZHZL”: Biography continues...” series as well as the books about intelligence and secret special services in “File No.” series.
The scope of themes provides the exceptional popularity of the books published by “Molodaya Gvardiya” among readers of different generations and ages. But it is beyond doubt that the authors themselves - their talent, bright personalities, high intellectual and moral level – draw our attention. Among them are the famous writers like V. Astafiev, V. Shukshin, V. Belov, Y. Bondarev, L. Leonov and V. Rasputin, the academicians - N. Moiseyev, B. Rybakov and А. Okladnikov, the spacemen - Y. Gagarin, A. Nicolaev and V. Rumin, the world chess champions - M. Tal and А. Karpov, the Olympic winners - L. Latynina and V. Brumel and many many others. In recent years this list was added with the names of A. Varlamov, D. Bykov, M. Kucherskaya, Z. Prilepin, L. Saraskina and A. Archangelsky.
Nowadays the real historical school the essential feature of which is scientific and objective character, veracity and fascination of description is formed around “Molodaya Gvardiya”. We can relate to it A. Karpov who wrote four books for “ZHZL” series – “Princess Olga”, “Saint Vladimir”, “Yaroslav Mudry” and “Yury Dolgoruky”; N.S. Borisov, the author of biographies of Ivan Kalita, Sergey Radonezhsky and Ivan III; V. N. Kozlyakov, the author of the books about the Time of Troubles – “Mikhail Fyodorovich”, “Vasily Shuisky”, “Marina Mnishek”, ‘Lzhedmitry I”; N.I. Pavlenko who wrote biographies of Pyotr I, Ekaterina I, Prince Alexey, Pyotr II, Ekaterina II, Lefort, Menshikov; E.V. Anisimova, the author of the books on history of the 18th century – “Anna Ioannovna”, “Elizaveta Petrovna”, “Ivan VI Antonovich”, “Bagration”; and many other writers.
