Florenty Fyodorovich Pavlenkov (Russian: Флорентий Фёдорович Павленков; 20 October 1839 – 20 January 1900) was a Russian publisher, librarian and philanthropist, founder of the All-Russian circuit of rural libraries, who compiled and edited the Illustrated Reader for Children which in 1873 received an honorable commendation at the Vienna Book exhibition. Pavlenkov is best known as a founder and publisher of an epic 200-plus biographical series "The Lives of Remarkable People" (Жизнь замечательных людей)[1] which never ceased after his death and continues in the 21st century. The Pavlenkov Publishing House (which functioned up until 1917) released more than 750 books which sold 3,5 million.[2][3]
^Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland, "Creating a National Biographical Series: F. F. Pavlenkov's 'Lives of Remarkable People', 1890–1924", The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 96, No. 1, Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Biography in Modern Russian Culture (January 2018), pp. 41-66, jstor.org. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
^"Флорентий Фёдорович Павленков". Brokhaus and Efron Biographical Dictionary. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^Rassudovskaya, N.M. The Publisher F.F. Pavlenkov (1839—1900): His Life and Works. Moscow. The Moscow Book Chamber Publishers. 1960.
Florenty Fyodorovich Pavlenkov (Russian: Флорентий Фёдорович Павленков; 20 October 1839 – 20 January 1900) was a Russian publisher, librarian and philanthropist...
for the mass audience. It was first published in 1890 till 1924 by FlorentyPavlenkov as Жизнь замечательных людей (1890—1924). It is mainly reprints of...
Иван Крамской. Его жизнь и художественная деятельность (in Russian). FlorentyPavlenkov. p. 104. Ekshtut, Semyon Arkadyevich (2008). Шайка передвижников....
Yakubovich, Pyotr (1907). "Nikolai Nekrasov. His Life and Works". FlorentyPavlenkov’s Library of Biographies. Retrieved 13 January 2014. Mirsky, D.S. (1926)...
(1897). "Alex Pisemsky: His Life and Literary Career" (in Russian). FlorentyPavlenkov Biographical Library. Retrieved 2011-06-01. Gornfeld, Arkady (1911)...
enterprises, resulting with Notes from the Road. Later that year FlorentyPavlenkov released the first three volumes of The Works by Gleb Uspensky. On...
(1894) and Aleksey Pisemsky (1894), all of which became part of the FlorentyPavlenkov-founded Lives of Distinguished People series. His History of Modern...
Kazimierz Krzywicki, John Stuart Mill and Adam Mickiewicz. For the FlorentyPavlenkov's Biographic Library he wrote the biographies of Otto von Bismarck...
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