''Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya'' (russian: Всемирная иллюстрация, ''World Illustrated'') was a Russian weekly magazine founded by German Goppe and published by his own publishing house in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
in 1869–1898.Гоппе Г. Д. at the Russian Biographical Dictionary.
Background and authors
A moderately liberal publication, modelling itself on the European journals like ''
The Illustrated London News
''The Illustrated London News'' appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. Founded by Herbert Ingram, it appeared weekly until 1971, then less frequently thereafter, and ceased publication in ...
'', ''
Die Gartenlaube
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'' and '' Le Monde Illustre'', it soon became the most popular illustrated magazine in Russia of its time, with the circulation up to 11 thousand, in 1878. Originally the text was auxiliary, mostly functioning as commentary to elaborate, high quality illustrations, but gradually the articles became more developed and in-depth, and the
belles-lettres
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section appeared, on the basis of which in 1889 a separate literary fortnightly was launched, called ''Trud''. Still, literature remained a prominent feature of ''Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya'', and among the authors who contributed to it regularly, were
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...
,
Vikenty Veresayev
Vikenty Vikentyevich Smidovich (16 January 1867 – 3 June 1945), better known by his pen name Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev, (russian: Вике́нтий Вике́нтьевич Вереса́ев) was a Russian and Soviet writer, translat ...
Vera Zhelikhovskaya
Vera Zhelikhovsky (russian: Ве́ра Петро́вна Желихо́вская, uk, Віра Желіховська Петрівна; April 29, 1835 – May 17, 1896), sometimes transliterated as Vera Jelihovsky, was a Russian writer, mostly ...
Yakov Polonsky
Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; ) was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose.
Of noble birth, Polonsky ...
and
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (russian: Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; , Ozurgeti – 25 April 1943, Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer an ...
. The literary section was edited by
Dmitry Averkiyev
Dmitry Vasilyevich Averkiyev (russian: Дмитрий Васильевич Аверкиев, (October 12, 1836, Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire, — January 20, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, theatre critic, novel ...
(1869—1871), Konstantin Sluchevsky (1871—1875), Vasily Popov (1875—1885), I.L. Fenner (1885), Anatoly Leman (1885—1887), F.F. Alexandrov (1887—1891) and
Pyotr Bykov
Pyotr Vasilyevich Bykov (Пётр Васильевич Быков, 1 November 1844, Sevastopol, Crimea, Russian Empire, – 22 October 1930, Detskoye Selo, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian literary historian, editor, poet and translator.
A Univers ...
(1891—1898).
Featured artists
More than fifty Russian artists worked for the journal, including Ivan Ayvazovsky,
Alexey Bogolyubov
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (russian: Алексей Петрович Боголюбов; 16 March 1824 – 3 February 1896) was a Russian landscape art, landscape painter.
Biography
Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Gube ...
,
Apollinary Vasnetsov
Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (russian: Аполлина́рий Миха́йлович Васнецо́в; August 6, 1856 – January 23, 1933) was a Russian painter and graphic artist whose elder brother was the more famous Viktor Vasnetsov. ...
,
Vasily Surikov
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,
Ivan Shishkin
Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.
Biography
Shishkin was born to a Russian me ...
,
Lev Lagorio
Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (Russian: Лев Феликсович Лагорио; 9 December 1826, Feodosia - 17 November 1905, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter and watercolorist, known primarily for his seascapes and maritime scenes. He was a ...
Nikolai Rerikh
Nicholas Roerich (; October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (russian: link=no, Никола́й Константи́нович Ре́рих), was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophis ...
Pyotr Borel
Pyotr Fyodorovich Borel (russian: Пётр Фёдорович Борель, 1829 — October 1898) was a Russian painter and illustrator, one of the leading portraitist of his time in Russia.
An Imperial Academy of Arts
The Russian Acade ...
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* (1918–1963), Austrian politician
* (1888–?), Austrian football coach: Pogoń Lwów, Legia Warsaw
* Karl Fischer (leftist) (fl. 19 ...
. Its
chess
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section, the largest in Russian press, was edited by
Ilya Shumov
Ilya Stepanovich Shumov (russian: Илья́ Степа́нович Шу́мов, 28 June 1819 in Arkhangelsk – July 1881 in Sevastopol) was a Russian chess master.
He served as an officer in the Russian Navy until 1847, then worked as a civil ...
and later
Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great ...
. The critic and opera singer
Mikhail Sariotti
Mikhail Sariotti (russian: Михаил Иванович (or Яковлевич)
Special supplements
Several outstanding events and anniversaries warranted the publication of special supplements: "The Album for the 200th Jubilee of Peter the Great" (the text provided by
Pyotr Petrov
Pyotr Nikolayevich Petrov (russian: Пётр Николаевич Петров, 1 July 1827, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, – 10 April 1891, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, arts historian and critic, genealogist, bib ...
and
Sergey Shubinsky
Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky (russian: Сергей Николаевич Шубинский; 1834–1913) was a Russian historian and journalist who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of Imperial Russia.Глинский Б ...
, 1872), "The Album of Russian Fairytales and Bylinas" (Pyotr Petrov, 1875), "The Illustrated Chronicles of the War" (1877—1878), "The All-Russian Exhibition of Arts and Industry in Moscow" (1882) and "Imperial Weddings from Mikhail Fyodorovich to Alexander II" (1883).Всемирная Иллюстрация in the
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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