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The most unexpected outcomes

Elena Shubina, head of Elena Shubina's editorial board:

- Pavel Basinsky's author's series "Tolstoy: A New Look" is a continuation of Tolstoy's project. It begins with "The True Story of Anna Karenina", in which the author tries to understand the main mystery novel, drawing on a huge amount of material and opening unknown pages.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya is preparing a book based on diaries and letters. Denis Dragunsky also turned to his personal archive and promises "a novel in notes and memoirs."

Alexander Arkhangelsky continues to explore the "happy life" of the heroes. This time he immerses us in the amazing story of the "Chinese" Inna Li, the daughter of a Russian noblewoman and Li Lisan, an associate of Mao Zedong. The biography of Fazil Iskander in the dialogues between Yevgeny Popov and Mikhail Gundarin is also not so far from the "national question".

Mikhail Vizel presents his major work "Anton Nosik as a mirror of the Russian Runet". Andrei Rubanov swung as much at Archpriest Avvakum - "Ice Notebook". The series "Strangers" is continued by the memories of Olga Chernova-Andreeva, daughter of the Socialist-Revolutionary Viktor Chernov, "Cold Spring".

But let us turn to "pure prose". Dmitry Bykov, after the main novel of 2021 "The Fighter", is preparing the collection "Majority". Alexei Salnikov's new novel "Occultreger" will also cause a lively reaction from readers and the media.

The absurdity of our reality in everyday life is the main theme of the prose writer and famous playwright Dmitry Danilov. The protagonist of the novel "Hello, Sasha!" lives in anticipation of death. What did he do? A crime or a minor offense? And what is in front of us in terms of genre framework? In the case of the new novel by Shamil Idiatullin, The Return of the Pioneer, this question does not arise - the text is performed in the best traditions of Soviet science fiction.

Fans of "Mikhail Elizarov's Reading Rooms", as well as Mikhail Gigolashvili and Anna Matveyeva will meet with new collections of short prose. We are waiting for the books of our debutants: Sergei Lebedenko, Sergei Kubrin, Konstantin Zarubin and regular authors: Evgeny Vodolazkin, Tatiana Moskvina, Dmitry Zakharov, Marina Moskvina, Olga Breininger. We are glad that the editorial portfolio includes names with which we are just starting to work: Ruslan Kozlov, Nikolay V. Kononov, Vadim Fefilov and ...

They wanted to become a novel

Boris Pasternak, CEO of Vremya publishing house:

- The basis of the long-term plan of our publishing house, as always, is contemporary Russian prose. But the undisputed flagship is the traditional Russian novel. I specifically specify: traditional. Because the novels have different tonnages now. Fantasy novels, novels in letters, and novels in documents appeared ... But how glad we are when a real Big Romance enters our harbor!

Vladimir Gatov's debut novel "In Search of Abel" by Vladimir Gatov is a family saga, the story of brothers torn apart by the Civil War. The family drama develops into an adventure-adventure novel, and then into a political thriller revolving around the most intriguing events of the 20th century.

The novels also have different tonnages. Fantasy novels, novels in letters, and novels in documents appeared ...

Anton Soya is an accomplished writer with a huge creative range. But his new story "Loafers" is not similar to anything the previous one. Anton returned to the nostalgic year for him in 1984, which he spent among "deliberately rude, reckless young fools with tender hearts. A real diary of memory ...

One of the most severe losses of the past year - Marietta Omarovna Chudakova. It is difficult to name another person who would be so highly valued in academic circles and respected in the widest circle of ordinary citizens at the same time. In recent years, Chudakova has written a lot for children and adolescents. "Do you want to learn to think?" - one of the last manuscripts that she handed over to the publishing house. Marietta Omarovna suggests learning to think on Russian literature and Russian history.

Introducing to future readers Madame Peng, a former teacher, and a teenager Gosha. Together with the clever little rat Martin, they fight evil forces to save the city from the spells of the rat lord Magnamurs. About this in the book by Kristina Strelnikova "Madame Peng and her rats. Mystical story".

In the plans: the fascinating novel by Vladimir Grzhonko "Groundhog Time", the book by Elena Yadrentseva "Fuga", the story for adolescents "Six Ninth Summer" by Yulia Lavryashina, "Culinary novel" by Marat Baskin, "My School" by Anna Severinets, the new long-awaited book by the writer's duet Andrey Zhvalevsky and Evgeniya Pasternak ...

100 years since the not-so-quiet Don

Maria Zalesskaya, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Molodaya Gvardiya :- This year the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Special attention will be paid to the books of the anniversary year.

I'll start with our trusted author, director, playwright and TEFI award winner Dmitry Minchenko. We are republishing, in a highly revised version, his biography of Isaac Dunaevsky under the title "Red Mozart". And we are really looking forward to a new book - a biography of Marc Chagall.

Another long-awaited book is the biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which is written by Ada Ainbinder, daughter of the legendary keeper of the Tchaikovsky archive in Klin, Polina Efimovna Vaidman. Zakhar Prilepin writes a biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, and we hope for no less success than his Yesenin had.

Oleg Trushin, who wrote a biography of Fyodor Abramov for us, is now preparing a biography of Konstantin Paustovsky. Trushin is a very scrupulous author, he double-checks everything - his books can be called truly historical.

Our venerable author Lyudmila Saraskina is preparing a book dedicated to Apollinaria Suslova, Dostoevsky's muse and Rozanov's wife. By the way, the biography of Vasily Rozanov has just come out in the authorship of Alexei Varlamov.

We are waiting for the biography of Otto von Bismarck, which is written by the largest and recognized expert on Bismarck Nikolai Vlasov. We hope that the book will become an event not only in our country, but also in Germany. There has never been such a complete and reliable biography of Bismarck in Russian.

I will conclude my short review with a new book by Pavel Basinsky and his co-author Yekaterina Barbanyaga entitled "Alice". This is the story of the relationship between our last Emperor Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, which, we hope, will be presented in the same unexpected literary vein as in the book "Sonya, go away!"

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