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Fragments (magazine)

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Frequency
  
Weekly

Final issue
  
1916

Language
  
Russian

Year founded
  
1881

Based in
  
St Petersburg

Fragments (magazine)

Editor
  
Nikolay Leykin Viktor Bilibin K. Mikhailov

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

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History

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.

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.

Poets and writers

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

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

    Fragments (magazine) Wikipedia