EKSMO

Eksmo Publishing House is a Russian publishing company founded in 1991 by Alexander Krasovitsky, Oleg Novikov and Andrey Gredasov (the Eksmo brand appeared in 1993). The business began with wholesale book trade, and later Eksmo acquired its own printing houses and retail chains. Thanks to the publication of domestic detective stories (primarily novels by Danil Koretsky and Alexandra Marinina) in the late 1990s, Eksmo significantly increased its sales and became the basis of a large holding company, which included printing houses, the Bukvoed bookstore chain, Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, Ventana-Graf, Drofa and other publishing houses. In the 2010s, Oleg Novikov also bought the AST publishing house, which, however, remained formally an independent structure. Eksmo is the largest publishing house in Russia, one of the largest publishing houses in Europe, and is included in the world's top 50. It publishes books in all major genres (detectives, science fiction, fantasy, domestic and foreign classics, modern literature, poetry, children's books, non-fiction, textbooks), and collaborates with many popular authors (including Alexandra Marinina, Tatyana Ustinova, Daria Dontsova, Vadim Panov, and Viktor Pelevin). The publishing house's series include "Ironic Detective," "Black Kitten," "Golden Series of Poetry," and others.