Florenty Pavlenkov

{{short description|Russian publisher and librarian}}

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| name = Florenty Fyodorovich Pavlenkov

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| birthname = Флорентий Фёдорович Павленков

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1839|10|20}}

| birth_place = Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1900|1|20|1839|10|20}}

| death_place = Nice, France

| occupation = Publisher, librarian philanthropist

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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)Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.96.1.0041?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents "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. 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.{{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/97632/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2|title = Флорентий Фёдорович Павленков| publisher = Brokhaus and Efron Biographical Dictionary

| accessdate = 16 May 2015}}Rassudovskaya, N.M. The Publisher F.F. Pavlenkov (1839—1900): His Life and Works. Moscow. The Moscow Book Chamber Publishers. 1960.