Sreda

Members of Sreda in 1902. Top row from left: Stepan Skitalets, Fyodor Tschaliapin, Evgeni Tschirikow; bottom row from left: Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andrejew, Ivan Bunin, Nikolaj Teleschow.

Sreda ( Среда ; Russian for: Wednesday ) was a literary circle in Moscow. Between 1899 and 1916, writers, painters and other artists met on Wednesdays in Nikolaj Teleschow's apartment to read and discuss new works. They included:

• Leonid Andreyev
• Konstantin Balmont (1867-1942)
• Andrei Bely (1880-1934)
• Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921)
• Valery Bryusov (1873-1924)
• Ivan Bunin (1870-1953)
• Fyodor Chaliapin
• Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
• Yevgeny Tschirikow
• Sergei Elpatiewski
• Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky
• Alexander Golowin (1863-1930)
• Maxim Gorki (1868-1936)
• Sergei Gusew-Orenburgski
• Alexander Kuprin (1870–1938)
• Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921)
• Isaak Levitan (1860-1900)
• Boris Pilnjak (1894–1938)
• Dmitri Mamin-Sibirjak (1852-1912)
• Sergei Terentievitsch Semenov
• Alexander Serafimowitsch (1863-1949)
• Fyodor Chaliapin (1873–1938)
• Ivan Schmeljow (1873–1950)
• Stepan Skitalez
• Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927)
• Nikolai Teleschow
• Viktor Wasnezow (1848–1926)
• Wikenti Veressajew (1867–1945)
• Semyon Yushkevich
• Boris Saizew
• Nikolai Slatovratsky

Some of the texts were published in the anthologies of the Snanije publishing house.

source

• Karlheinz Kasper: Sreda . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983, p. 268.