LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES IN THE "LIVES OF REMARKABLE PEOPLE SERIES (ZHIZN' ZAMECHATEL'NYKH LIUDEI)"

Trigos and Ueland look at Florenty Fedorovich Pavlenkov's The Lives of Remarkable People series. The overarching concept behind Pavlenkov's biographical series was that individuals, rather than abstract ideas, served as the prime movers in history. He recognized the pedagogical impact of biographies, but he also saw the need to challenge the beliefs of his readers by juxtaposing contrasting and even incompatible points of view.