Time, publishing house, 1922-1934

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TIME, a co-operative publishing house established in 1922 (registered in January 1923). The publishing house was set up by publisher and editor I.F. Wolfson, who was also its first president, the editor-in-chief was literary critic G.P. Blok, a cousin of A.A. Blok. From May 1932, the editorial board was headed by A.V. Lunacharsky. Time was the first publishing house in Russia to issue the collected works of R. Rolland and S. Zweig (both collections were published under the supervision of the authors); it also published the collected works of Stendhal, M. Proust, A. Gide, works of contemporary European writers, such as T. Mann, A. Seghers, H. Barbusse, H. Fallada et al. The publishing house was largely supported by M. Gorky. Vremya publishing house introduced a new type of scientific popular literature, the Engaging Science Series, which enjoyed enormous popularity; the publication of the series was sustained by A.E. Fersman, Y.I. Perelman, A.V. Zinger et al. Time editions were remarkable for their high level of preparation, artistic design and typography of books. The offices of the publishing house were situated at 3A Liteyny Avenue and 7 Seventh Rozhdestvenskaya Street (present-day Seventh Sovetskaya Street), in the flats of Blok and Wolfson. In 1934 the publishing house was closed.

References: Шомракова И. А. Издательство "Время" (1922-1934 гг.) // Книга: Исслед. и материалы. М., 1968. Сб. 17. С. 199-214; Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986. С. 340-343.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Abaza Alexander Aggeevich
Barbusse Henri
Blok Lyubov Dmitrievna
Fallada Hans
Fersman Alexander Evgenievich
Gide Andre
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Lunacharsky Anatoly Vasilievich
Mann Thomas
Perelman Yakov Isidorovich
Proust Marcel
Rolland Romain
Seghers Anna
Stendhal (real name Henri-Marie Beyle)
Wolfson I. V.
Zinger A. V.
Zweig Stefan
7th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 3, litera л. А
Шомракова И. А. Издательство «Время» (1922 – 1934 гг.) // Книга. Исслед. и материалы. М., 1968
Баренбаум И. Е., Костылева Н. А. Книжный Петербург - Ленинград. Л., 1986