Oskolki
Oskolki ( Russian Осколки , 'The Splinter' ) was a humorous literary-artistic weekly newspaper that was published in Russian in Saint Petersburg from 1881 to 1916 .
overview
Nikolai Leikin headed the newspaper from 1882 to 1906 and the humorist Wiktor Bilibin until 1908.
In the 1880s, Die Splitter was one of the most popular and cheeky Russian joke papers. Anton Chekhov published at the beginning of his career, so 1882-1887, more than 270 works in this newspaper - including 1884 his first short story collection Melpomene ( Russian Сказки Мельпомены Skaski Melpomeny ). In addition to Chekhov, Alexander Amfiteatrow, Alexei Budishchev, Vladimir Gilyarovsky , Pyotr Gneditsch, Evgeni Koni, Konstantin Ldow, Vladimir Masurkewitsch, Liodor Palmin and Nikolai Posnjakow wrote for the weekly paper. Alexei Afanasjew, Alexander Lebedew and Anton Chekhov's brother Nikolai worked as caricaturists .
literature
- Oskolki . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 22 [43]: Опека – Оутсайдер. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1897, p. 278 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF ).