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    Fragments (magazine)

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    Fragments
    Fragments cover, 1911.
    EditorNikolay Leykin
    Viktor Bilibin
    K. Mikhailov
    FrequencyWeekly
    Founded1881
    Final issue1916
    Based inSt Petersburg
    LanguageRussian

    Fragments (Russian: Осколки) was a Russian humorous, literary and artistic weekly magazine published in St Petersburg from 1881 to 1916.

    History[edit]

    From 1881 to 1906 Fragments was published by the popular writer Nikolay Leykin. From 1906 to 1908 it was run by the humorist Viktor Bilibin.[1]

    In the 1880s Fragments was known as the most liberal of Russian humorous magazines. Fragments played an important part in the early career of Anton Chekhov. From 1882 to 1887 Fragments published more than 270 of Chekhov's works.

    Contributors[edit]

    Poets and writers[edit]

    • Alexander Amfiteatrov
    • Anton Chekhov
    • Vladimir Gilyarovsky
    • Pyotr Gnedich
    • Evgeny Kohn
    • Nikolai Leskov
    • Konstantin Lydov
    • Vladimir Mazurkevich
    • Liodor Palmin
    • Nikolay Poznyakov

    Artists[edit]

    • Aleksey Afanas'ev
    • Alexander I. Lebedev
    • Nikolay Chekhov

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Katayev, V.B. Chekhov and His Literary Friends // Чехов и его литературное окружение. Изд-во Моск. ун-та, 1982.
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