Adolf Fyodorovich Marx (; 2 February 1838 – ), last name also spelled Marcks and recently Marks, known as A. F. Marx, was an influential 19th-century German publisher in Russia best known for the weekly journal ''

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the son of Friedrich Marx, a maker of

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clocks. After finishing his education, he went to work in a bookstore, and in 1859 moved to the Russian Empire to take jobs in the book trade, first with F. A. Bietepage and I. K. Kalugin to deal with their German books, and then in the foreign department of Moritz Wolf's bookstore, "one of the best bookshops in St. Petersburg." After a brief period as chief editor for German and French correspondence for the Great Russian Railway Company,Deutsche Buchhändler biography
he decided to open his own publishing company in St. Petersburg in 1869. He published books on literature, art, and history, and from 1870 ''

'', the weekly journal for which he is best known. The office of the publishing house was at 22 Malaya Morskaya Street and its printing house at 29 Izmaylovsky Avenue. After the death of Marx the publishing house was reorganized as the A. F. Marx Publishing and Printing Joint-Stock Company. In 1897, he was awarded a title of nobility. He died in 1904 and was buried in the cemetery of Novodevichy Monastery.

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Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia entryDeutsche Buchhändler biography
(in German)
Lyudi biography
(in Russian)

(in Russian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Marks, Adolf 1838 births 1904 deaths Emigrants from the Kingdom of Prussia to the Russian Empire People from Szczecin People from the Province of Pomerania Journalists from the Russian Empire Book publishers (people) from the Russian Empire Magazine founders from the Russian Empire Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery