The book "People of Thought and Good" is dedicated to the outstanding Russian publishers of the second half of the 19th century. - Kozma Terentyevich Soldatenkov (1818-1901) and Nikolai Petrovich Polyakov (1843-1905). Studying the history of the Russian book business, an integral part of Russian culture, is important not only for understanding the culture of the past, ways of its development.