Ivan Sytin

Avtor biografii vydayuschegosya russkogo knigoizdatelya Ivana Dmitrievicha Sytina ubeditel'no pokazyvaet, kak prostoy krest'yanskiy parenek, u kotorogo nachal'naya sel'skaya shkola otbila interes k uchebe i knige i kotoryy v 12 let poshel "v lyudi", k kupcu-staroobryadcu na vyuchku, smog vyrasti v krupneyshego deyatelya kul'tury poreformennoy Rossii, sotrudnichat' s L.H.Tolstym, druzhit' s A.P.Chehovym, blizko soytis' s A.M.Gor'kim i mnogimi drugimi pisatelyami, hudozhnikami, obschestvennymi deyatelyami togo vremeni. Takie lichnosti po pravu prichislyayutsya k tem, kto sam sebya sdelal. Ot primitivnyh lubochnyh kartin i knizhek, ot sotrudnichestva s ofenyami Sytin prishel k sozdaniyu sobstvennoy knizhnoy imperii, vypuskavshey v predrevolyucionnyy period kazhduyu chetvertuyu knigu Rossii. Seriya: Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh lyudey. Malaya seriya.