Russian way (publisher)

The starting point for the emergence of the publishing house "Russian Way" can be considered September 1990 : the Library of Foreign Literature ( VGBIL ) presented a large exhibition of books by the oldest publishing house of foreign Russia "YMCA-Press" . The exhibition had a reading room and a bookstore, where for the first time it was possible to openly read and purchase previously forbidden books of theologians , philosophers , writers, political and military figures who were forced to leave Russia after the 1917 revolution . This undertaking was a success. It was decided to open an “Imkovsky” branch in Moscow, and in 1991 a joint venture arose, named “Russian Way” in the spirit of emigration traditions.

In the first four years, the leading activity of the Russian Way, along with the publication of books, was the opening of the Imkov reading rooms and traveling exhibitions in the cities of Russia, the CIS countries , the Baltic states and Eastern Europe . By the summer of 1995 , over forty of such actions had been conducted in the Russian Federation .

The “Russian Way” became a connecting link, a guide used by emigrants to transfer collections of books, periodicals, and archival materials to Russia. The need was ripening for the creation in Moscow of a special center of the Russian Diaspora , where the transferred values ​​would have appropriate storage conditions and would be accessible to a wide circle of readers. Thanks to the joint efforts of the Government of Moscow , the Russian Public Fund Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the YMCA-Press, the Russian Foreign Countries Library Fund was established in July 1995. Today it is one of the largest cultural, educational, research centers of the country and the main partner of the publishing house.

In 1995, the YMCA-Press publishing house handed over to Russkiy Put the release of the series Researching Modern Russian History (edited by A. I. Solzhenitsyn ) and The All-Russian Memorial Library (edited by N. D. Solzhenitsyna ).

As a result of the cooperation of the Russian Way with the editors of the Russian Military Collection, a military line appeared in the publishing house’s activities, conducted by A. E. Savinkin and I. V. Domnin.

In 1995, a collection of essays and diary entries by Boris Zaitsev was released .

In 1996, the work of Gleb Struve , Russian Literature in Exile, supplemented by The Brief Biographical Dictionary of Russian Abroad, was published for the first time in Russia in The Russian Way.

In 1997, the Russian Way was reorganized into a closed joint-stock company . The issue of books was increased, and a bookstore appeared.

In the late 1990s, one of the last works of Dmitry Merezhkovsky, “The Secret of the Russian Revolution: the Experience of Social Demonology” and the monograph by D. A. Levitsky, “The Life and Work of Arkady Averchenko,” is the only complete biography of the writer.

Among the books published by The Russian Way, letters not previously published by M. I. Tsvetaeva , correspondence of the literary critic Ivanov-Razumnik with famous representatives of the emigration of the first wave , work on literature and culture of the Russian historian and philologist P. M. Bitsilli , essays by a journalist and literary critic of emigration I. Golenishcheva-Kutuzov , a collection of works of AM Remizov with numerous copyright illustrations , new materials about the life and work of IA Bunin , an anthology of Prague poetic association "skit" with For details on the biographical sketch, album, Natalia Sologub (daughter of BK Zaitsev), united autographs representatives of Russian emigration in France, for the first time in Russian memoir writer and journalist of the Russian diaspora ZA Shakhovskoy "This is my time," complete edition of the famous manuscript almanac " Chukokkala " with comments by Korney Chukovsky .

Since 2005, a film studio has been part of the Russian Way structure. The priority direction of her activity is the creation of documentaries on various aspects of the life of the Russian diaspora . The first such work was the film by Sergei Zaitsev “Embassy on Tagansky Hill” about the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad in Moscow.

• Research on contemporary Russian history - in 1979 , YMCA-Press began publishing the series Research on Contemporary Russian History (edited by A. I. Solzhenitsyn ). The first 12 issues were published in this publishing house, the tenth (“On the Leaders of Russian Communism” by Dora Sturman) and the twelfth (collection “The Temptation of Socialism”) were already published together with the “Russian Way”. In The Russian Way, the publication of the series continues with a new numbering. Some of the books, such as the works of famous scholars V. Leontovich “The History of Liberalism in Russia” and G. Katkov “ February Revolution ”, are fundamental studies. Others, like the “Victims of Yalta” by N. Tolstoy (on the forcible repatriation of Russians after the Second World War) or the “Narym Chronicle” by V. Maksheev (on the mass death of special migrants in the Narym District in 1930–1945), tell of the tragic fate of people who became hostages of historical circumstances. In the third (“Russian Foreign Congress. 1926. Paris: Documents and Materials”, “ Antonovskaya Uprising ” by V. Samoshkin) some significant episodes of Russian history are covered in detail.
• Our recent. The All-Russian Memorial Library is the basis of another “Imkovskaya” series - manuscripts of emigrants who responded to the call of A. I. Solzhenitsyn to write and send memoirs in order to preserve the memory of their past under the systematic destruction by totalitarian authorities of both authentic historical documents and the witnesses themselves. Now this priceless archive has been deposited with the Russian Foreign Countries Library Fund. The books of the series show the history of the country as a set of fates of the people living in it. So, we see the events of the Civil War through the eyes of the famous artist Aleksandr Benois , the ministerial officer Tatishchev and the former public servant Okninsky who went to the front and Klementyev, a member of the Savinkov’s Union for the Defense of the Homeland and Freedom, concluded Butyrok .

• Materials and research - the series is published in conjunction with the Library Fund “Russian Abroad” based on materials from international scientific conferences.

• The Russian military collection - the preparation and publication of issues since 1996 is carried out together with the Military University. The books of this series, which has no analogues, represent Russian (and partially foreign) military classics, military-state thought of Russia.

• Bookmark - in this series not only the works of Russian classics are published, but also literary and critical articles that raise a whole layer of Russian literary criticism and help to better understand the work being studied.

Books of the Russian Way Publishing House have been awarded honorary awards more than once and become winners of contests:

• Solzhenitsyn A. I. Two hundred years together - the winner of the contest "The Best Editions of the XIV Moscow International Book Fair" (2001).

• Onegin Encyclopedia: In 2 volumes - Winner of the Book of the Year 2004 contest.

• Smirnova-Marley A. Yu. The way home - Winner of the ASCI contest “Best Books of the Year” 2004

• Lisnyanskaya I. L. Without you: Poems of 2003 - award for the best book of poems at the Moscow Account 2004 contest, established by the Creative Projects Fund.

• Anton Chekhov and his critic Mikhail Menshikov: Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, articles - were awarded the prize “Best Books and Publishers - 2006”, established by the Russian State Library , the Russian Biographical Institute and the Literary Newspaper.

• Andreev D. L. Collected Works: In 4 vols. - Winner of the ASKI contest “Best Books of the Year” 2006.
• "Chukokkala: Handwritten Almanac of Korney Chukovsky " - entered the short list of the competition "Book of the Year" 2007.

• Official site of the Russian Way Publishing House
• Fifteen years along the Russian path - an article about the publishing house "Russian Way" in the newspaper "Moscow News".
• From Tamizdat to Russian Way , an article about the Russian Way publishing house in Literaturnaya Gazeta.
• Moscow celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Russian Way Publishing House
• Library Fund “Russian Abroad”
• The film studio "Russian Way"
• Zakharov N.V. Onegin Encyclopedia: Thesaurus of the novel (Onegin Encyclopedia. T. 2. / Under the general editorship of N.I. Mikhailova. M., 2004) // Knowledge. Understanding. Skill . - 2005. - No. 4 . - S. 180-188 .