Alexey Yuryevich Karpov () is a Russian historian, obshestvoved and culturologist. The editor of the publishing house Molodaya Gvardiya. He is a specialist in the history of ancient Russia.
He was awarded many scientific prizes, including the National award "Imperial culture" named after Eduard Volodin and The Patriarchal literary award.
Life Karpov was born on May 5, 1960, in Moscow.
In 1982, he graduated from the history Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical University. For about 5 years, he worked as a high school history and obshestvovedeny teacher.
In 1987, he got a job as an editor at the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house. It has been published since 1990.
During his life, Karpov wrote more than 100 historical works; biographies of the rulers of Kievan Rus' became very popular. He became famous for historical biographies of the rulers of ancient Ukraine, primarily the "Orthodox trilogy", which includes books about Princess Olga, Yaroslav the Wise and Vladimir the Great.The author combined these books into a trilogy in the Preface to his work "Princess Olga".
Currently lives and works in Moscow.
Honours «Alexander Nevsky» (2005) — for the book «Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky» National award «Imperial culture» named after Eduard Volodin (2014) — for the book «Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky» Winner of the IX competition «Education through the book» (2014) — First degree diploma in the category «The best spiritual and Patriotic book» for the book «Andrey Bogolyubsky» The Patriarchal literary award (2016) — «for significant contribution to the development of Russian literature»
Main works 2002 – Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky 2004 – Vladimir the Great 2005 – Yaroslav the Wise 2007 – Yuri Dolgoruky 2009 – Princess Olga 2011 – Baty 2013 – Orthodox saints and miracle workers 2014 – Andrey Bogolyubsky 2015 – Grand Duke Vladimir Monomakh 2019 – Vsevolod the big nest In addition, Karpov is the author of historical books for children, articles on the study of ancient Ukraine and historical research.
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