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Niva (Field), journal
Niva (Field), journal
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Press. Mass Media/Periodical Press/Magazines
NIVA (The Field), an illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life, which appeared from 1870 through to 1917, in A. F. Marx's publishing house (until 1904) consecutively under the editorships of : V. P. Klyushnikov, F. N. Berg, L. I. Stakheev et al. With a circulation of 275.000 issues, was the most popular thin journal for family reading in pre-Revolutionary Russia. It had several supplements: The Monthly Literary Supplement (paperback editions of literary works of the most prominent Russian writers), The Niva Miscellany, Paris Fashion and others. The journal regularly published copies of works by Russian and foreign artists, illustrations, biographies of celebrated cultural figures, articles on archaeology, local history, natural sciences, geography, sport (with a chess section), theory of education, information on all aspects of city life (Niva's publications provided a valuable source for city historical records). The belles-lettres section was represented by works of the epoch's major writers (including Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection). The editorial office was located at 22 Malaya Morskaya Street. References: Швецова Л. К. Массовые еженедельники для пестрого читателя // Литературный процесс и русская журналистика конца XIX - начала XX века, 1890-1904: Бурж.-либер. и модернист. изд. М., 1982. С. 281-290. A. B. Muratov.
Persons
Berg Fedor Nikolaevich
Klyushnikov Viktor Petrovich
Marx Adolf Fedorovich
Stakheev L.I.
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Addresses
Malaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Bibliographies
Швецова Л. К. Массовые еженедельники для "пестрого" читателя // Литературный процесс и русская журналистика конца XIX - начала XX века, 1890-1904: Бурж.-либер. и модернист. изд. М., 1982
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Chukovsky K.I. (1882-1969), writer
CHUKOVSKY Korney Ivanovich (real name Nikolay Vasilievich Korneychukov) (1882, St. Petersburg - 1969), a children's poet, critic, literary expert and translator. He was the father of L.K. Chukovskaya. Chukovsky came to St. Petersburg in 1904
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Fofanov K.M. (1862-1911), poet
FOFANOV Konstantin Mikhailovich (1862, St. Petersburg - 1911, at the same place), poet. He had little formal education. After leaving home in 1885, he wandered a lot and lived in poverty all his life. He appeared in various (mostly St
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Literary journals (entry)
LITERARY JOURNALS. The genesis of the Russian literary journalism is associated with St. Petersburg, where in 1728-36 and 1738-42 circulated first and only journal in the Russian language at that time - Primechaniya k Vedomostyam (the name changed)
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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
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Otsup P.A. (1883-1963), photographer
OTSUP Peter Adolfovich (1883, St. Petersburg 1963), photographer, initiator of Russian photo reporting. In 1890s he worked as a pupil in a photo studio. From 1900, he worked as photographer for journals Ogonyok, Solntse Rossii, Niva, Nash Vestnik
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Pylyaev M.I. (1842-1899), expert of regional ethnography
PYLYAEV Mikhail Ivanovich (1842, St. Petersburg - 1899, the same city) writer and journalist. He received no systematic education, but attended lectures at Kharkov University and abroad
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Yakovlev A.E. (1887-1938), artist
YAKOVLEV Alexander Evgenievich (1887 - 1938, St. Petersburg), painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Arts from 1905 to 1913, with D.N. Kardovsky as his tutor from 1907
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