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Aurora, publishing house, from 1969

AURORA (7/9 Nevsky Prospect), a publishing house established in 1969 as a branch and editorial office for export and facsimile editions of the Soviet Artist Publishing House

Averchenko A.T. (1881-1925), writer

AVERCHENKO Arkady Timofeevich (1881-1925), writer, playwright, theatre critic. He started writing in 1903. From 1907 he lived in St. Petersburg: worked for Svobodnaya mysl newspaper and Strekoza magazine

Bianki V.V. (1894-1959), writer

BIANKI Vitaly Valentinovich (1894, St. Petersburg - 1959, Leningrad), prose writer. He studied at Natural Sciences Department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Petrograd University (did not finish)

Birzhevye Vedomosti (The Stock-Exchange Gazette), 1880-1917

BIRZHEVYE VEDOMOSTI (The Stock-Exchange Gazette). 1) A daily commercial, political and literary newspaper. It was founded in 1861 as a merger of the Kommercheskaya Gazeta and Zhurnal Dlya Aktsionerov. Financier and entrepreneur K. V

Brokgauz-Efron, publishing house, 1889-1930

BROKGAUZ-EFRON, a publishing house established in 1889 on the initiative of S.A. Vengerov by a St. Petersburg printer I.A. Efron and Leipzig Publishing Company of F.A. Brokgauz

Enlightenment, publishing house, 1896-1922

ENLIGHTENMENT, a joint-stock publishing company which functioned in 1896-22. The publishing house was established by N.S. Tsetlin, a public figure and entrepreneur, together with the German Bibliographic Institute Company of J. Meyer

Grin A.S. (1880-1932), writer

GRIN (real name Grinevsky) Alexander Stepanovich (1880-1932), writer. For the first time came to St. Petersburg either in 1905 or in 1906 illegally, drifted together with A. I. Kuprin, who introduced him into literary circles

Knowledge, publishing house, 1898-1913

KNOWLEDGE (Znanie), a publishing house established in 1898 by K.P. Pyatnitsky as a joint-stock company of writers, which included V.A. Posse, D.D. Protopopov, O.N. Popova, V.I. Charnolusky, and G.A. Falborg

Leningrad State Publishing House, publishing house

LENIZDAT (Leningrad State Publishing House) (59 Fontanka River Embankment), a publishing house established in the end of 1917 as a publishing house for Petrograd Soviet; at that time quartered in Smolny

Letopis (The Chronicle), journal

LETOPIS (The Chronicle) monthly literary, scientific and political journal, founded and virtually edited by Maxim Gorky. The journal united authors and publicists opposing nationalism and WW I

Lights, the Publishing House, 1909-1922

LIGHTS was a joint-stock publishing company. It was founded in 1909 by critic and publicist E. A. Lyatsky. It was situated at 80 Fontanka Embankment. The editorial board included B. L. Modzalevsky, V. I. Sreznevsky, P. E. Shchegolev

Marx A.F., (1838-1904), publisher

MARX Adolf Fedorovich (1838-1904, St. Petersburg), publisher. An emigrant from Germany, he came to St. Petersburg in 1859 summoned by booksellers F.A. Bitepazh and I.K. Kalugin to arrange the German section of their book trade

Mir Bozhy (God's World), journal, 1892-1906

MIR BOZHY (God's World), (in 1906-18 Sovremenny Mir), a journal, appear in 1892-1918 under V. P. Ostrogorsky's editorship with А. А. Davydov as its publisher. The editorial office had its seat at 7 Razyezzhaya Street

Odoevtseva I.V. (1895-1990), writer

ODOEVTSEVA Irina Vladimirovna (real name Heinecke Iraida Gustavovna ) (1895-1990, Leningrad), poet, prose writer, author of memoirs. In 1918 she came to Petrograd. Attended lectures of the Institute of the Living Word (1918-21)

Polyarnaya Zvezda (The Polar Star), almanac

POLYARNAYA ZVEZDA (The Polar Star), literary almanac (pocket book for lovers of Russian literature), published by А. А. the Bestuzhev (Marlinsky) and K. F. Ryleev

Prometheus, publishing house

PROMETHEUS, a publishing house established in 1907 by publisher N.N. Mikhaylov. It was situated at 15 Pushkinskaya Street. The publishing house issued works of Russian and foreign authors (A.V. Amfiteatrov, Y. Volin, S.M. Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, E.L

Rainbow Publishing House, 1922-1930

RAINBOW Publishing House was founded in 1922. Journalist L. M. Klyachko was its creator and owner. The main office was situated in the Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor, the editorial board was housed in the flat of Klyachko (14 Stremyannaya Street)

Science, publishing house

SCIENCE (1 Mendeleevskaya Line), a publishing company, and a department of the Academic Publishing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The publishing house dates back to the Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences established in Petrograd

Teffi N.А. (1872-1952), writer

TEFFI (nee Lokhvitskaya, married name Buchinskaya) Nadezhda Alexandrovna (1872, St. Petersburg - 1952), a prose writer, poet, and playwright. She first appeared in the press in 1901 with a poem I Have A Dream, Both Wonderful and Wild...