Russian historical prose (set in film)

A set of 10 books of the Russian Historical Prose series, created together with the Russian Historical Society for a wide range of readers.

The series was published in five volumes and ten books, which included works written in end of the XVIII - beginning of the XXI century. Many of the works included in the series for Russian readers are “places of memory” - according to the terminology of the historian Pierre Nora, symbolic elements of national memory. Each volume is preceded by a specialist’s preface, and the texts of the works are equipped with detailed comments.

part of the texts for the multi -volume were taken from the funds of the State Public Historical Library, reprinted from the Russian pre -reform spelling and first published in this collection of works.

“The artistic development of the historical past is an important direction in the development of national culture, the basis of the formation of historical consciousness of the people, an indispensable condition for the formation of reliable knowledge about the past.”

Mikhail Afanasyev, Director of the State Public Library of Russia.

Dmitry Buck, Director of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after IN AND. Dalya.