''Fragments'' () was a Russian humorous, literary and artistic weekly magazine published in St Petersburg from 1881 to 1916.

History

From 1881 to 1906 ''Fragments'' was published by the popular writer

Nikolay Leykin Nikolai Alexandrovich Leykin (; December 19, 1841 – January 19, 1906) was a Russian writer, artist, playwright, journalist and publisher. Biography Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subj ...

. From 1906 to 1908 it was run by the humorist Viktor Bilibin.Katayev, V.B
Chekhov and His Literary Friends
// Чехов и его литературное окружение. Изд-во Моск. ун-та, 1982. In the 1880s ''Fragments'' was known as the most liberal of Russian humorous magazines. ''Fragments'' played an important part in the early career of

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

. From 1882 to 1887 ''Fragments'' published more than 270 of Chekhov's works.

Contributors

Poets and writers

Alexander Amfiteatrov Alexander Valentinovich Amfiteatrov (); (26 December 1862 – 26 February 1938) was a Russian writer, novelist, and historian. Biography Born a priest's son in Kaluga, Russian Empire, he was trained as a lawyer but became a journalist and pop ...

Vladimir Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseyevich Gilyarovsky (; 26 November 1853 – 1 October 1935), was a Russian writer and newspaper journalist, best known for his reminiscences of life in pre-Revolutionary Moscow (''Moscow and Muscovites''), which he first published i ...

* Pyotr Gnedich *Evgeny Kohn *

Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held ...

*Konstantin Lydov *Vladimir Mazurkevich *

Liodor Palmin Liodor (Iliodor) Ivanovich Palmin (; May 27 (May 15), 1841 in Yaroslavl, Yaroslavskaya gubernia, Russian Empire – November 7 (October 26), 1891 in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian poetry, Russian poet, translator and journalist. Biography ...

*Nikolay Poznyakov

Artists

* Aleksey Afanas'ev *Alexander I. Lebedev * Nikolay Chekhov

References

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