Vsemirnaya Illustratsiya
A 1898 poster
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| Editor | German Goppe |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 11,000 (1878) |
| Year founded | 1869 |
| Final issue | 1898 |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Based in | Saint Petersburg |
| Language | Russian |
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 in 1869-1898.
A moderately liberal publication, modelling itself on the European jornals like The Illustrated London News, Die Gartenlaube 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 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, Vikenty Veresayev, Konstantin Sluchevsky, Vera Zhelikhovskaya, Anatoly Leman, Apollon Korinfsky, Ekaterina Krasnova, Alexey Ivanov-Classic, Yakov Polonsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. The literary section was edited by Dmitry Averkiyev (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 (1891—1898).
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