The  book-exhibition of the oldest Russian book series “The life of remarkable people” has  been  organized in the department of  world  literature.

    “The life of remarkable people” (“LRP”) – the series of biographical and fiction and biographical books was founded in 1890 by an outstanding Russian educator  F.F. Pavlenkov ( 1839-1900) and was proceeded  in 1933 by M.Gorky (1868-1956). The series is the first universal collection of biographies in Russian.  The 200-volumed  Pavlenkov’s  library  of (“LRP”)  was  published  since 1890 till 1915 ( after his  death the project of the series  was finished by his executors ) and  was a success  among the readers of all ages, having withstood 40 prerevolutionary Reprints,  their  total  circulation is 1.5 million copies. Designed  for a wide readers’ range, books  of  Pavlenkov series  were small in volume, but unusually intensive in content.

    In January 1933 there came out the first issues of Gorky’s  series “LRP”, published by  “Newspaper and magazine association”,  commemorated  themselves  the second birth the most extensive and the only  universal collection of biographies. Gorky tried  to involve in the cooperation the best writers, both Russian and foreign: there about remarkable  people must write remarkable writers is the main leitmotif.  In 1938 by disbanding “Newspaper and magazine association” the series “LPR”, already without Gorky, but in accordance with his desire, was transferred to the “The young  gvardjya”, the central  youth publishing house of the country. Since then  this publication wasn’t  interrupted. During  “the young   gvardjya”  period  “LPR” truly flourished.

   There came out the series of “LPR”: Abkhazian, Azerbaijan, Latvian, Lithuanian, Kara-Kalpak, Moldovan, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Chuvash, Yakut. Recently the series was revitalized. Its annual  publications  are 50-60 new biographies and reprints now, is almost twice as many than in the Soviet times. The range of the writers has expanded. There aren’t only  professional  writers, but also philologists and philosophers, historians,  art critics, specialists of the most various fields of human activity you can see among  them. For today there within the framework of the series  “The life of remarkable people’’ were published more than 1400 book titles, with a total circulation of 100 million of copies.

   There at the book-exhibition are shown the books of the series  ‘’The life of remarkable people” from  the fond the National library of the RK, published from 1891 till 2011.

   We invite you to visit the book-exhibition!