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. Currently lives and works in Moscow. ==Honours==