''Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya'' (, ''World Illustrated'') was a Russian weekly magazine founded by German Goppe and published by his own publishing house in

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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 ''

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'', ''

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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

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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 – 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 ...

Vikenty Veresayev Vikenty Vikentyevich Smidovich (16 January 1867 – 3 June 1945), better known by his pen name Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev, () was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and medical doctor of Polish descent. Early life Veresaev was born ...

Konstantin Sluchevsky Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky (), (July 29, 1837–September 25, 1904) was a Russian poet. Sluchevsky was born in St. Peterburg into a Russian noble family. He graduated from the First Cadet Corps, served in the Imperial Russian Guar ...

Vera Zhelikhovskaya Vera Zhelikhovsky (, ; April 29, 1835 – May 17, 1896), sometimes transliterated as Vera Jelihovsky, was a Russian writer, mostly of children's stories. She was Madame Blavatsky's sister. Vera Zhelikhovsky wrote also fantastic stories with hero ...

Anatoly Leman Anatoly Ivanovich Leman (, 13 June 1859, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 24 September 1913, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian literature, Russian writer, and editor, also known as a manufacturer of musical string instruments and a prof ...

Apollon Korinfsky Apollon Apollonovich Korinfsky (; 29 August 1868 – 12 January 1937) was a Russian poet, journalist, writer, translator and memoirist. Biography Korinfsky was born in Simbirsk to a local judge, his extraordinary name tracing back no further than ...

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, Alexey Ivanov-Classic,

Yakov Polonsky Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (; ) was a leading Pushkinist poet who wrote poems faithful to the traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Of noble birth, Polonsky attended the Moscow University, where he befriended ...

and

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (; – 25 April 1943) was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how t ...

. The literary section was edited by

Dmitry Averkiyev Dmitry Vasilyevich Averkiyev (, (October 12, 1836, in Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire – January 20, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, theatre critic, novelist, publicist and translator. He is the author of the ...

(1869—1871),

(1871—1875), Vasily Popov (1875—1885), I.L. Fenner (1885), Anatoly Leman (1885—1887), F.F. Alexandrov (1887—1891) and Pyotr Bykov (1891—1898).

Featured artists

More than fifty Russian artists worked for the journal, including Ivan Ayvazovsky,

Alexey Bogolyubov Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (; 16 March 1824 – 3 February 1896) was a Russian painting, Russian landscape art, landscape and seascape painter. Biography Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Governorate. His father was r ...

Apollinary Vasnetsov Apollinary Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (; – 23 January 1933) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. He specialised in scenes from the medieval history of Moscow. Vasnetsov did not receive a formal artistic education. He had studied under his ...

Vasily Surikov Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (; 24 January 1848 – 19 March 1916) was a Russian Realism (arts), realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations. Biography He was born to an ...

Ivan Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (; – ) was a Russian landscape painter and graphic artist, one of the most famous landscape painters of the post-reform era, and the creator of the iconic painting '' Morning in a Pine Forest''. He was an academician ...

Lev Lagorio Lev Feliksovich Lagorio (Russian: Лев Феликсович Лагорио; 9 December 1826 - 17 November 1905) was a Russian painter and watercolorist, known primarily for his seascapes and maritime scenes. He was associated with the "Cimmeri ...

, Nikolai Karazin, Gustav Broling, Alexander Beggrov,

Nikolai Rerikh Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (), better known as Nicholas Roerich (; October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. In his youth he was influenced by Russi ...

, Alexey Afanasyev,

Pyotr Borel Pyotr Fyodorovich Borel (, 1829 — October 1898) was a Russian Empire, Russian painter and illustrator, one of the leading portraitist of his time in Russia. An Imperial Academy of Arts alumnus, Borel became famous for his massive series of li ...

Abram Arkhipov Abram Efimovich Arkhipov (; – 25 September 1930) was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the Union of Russian Artists. Biography Born in the village of Yegorovo in the Ryazan Obla ...

, as well as the two prominent Russian photographers, Alfred Fedetsky and Karl Fischer. Its

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section, the largest in Russian press, was edited by

Ilya Shumov Ilya Stepanovich Shumov (, 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 servant in Saint Petersburg. He was invited, along with ...

and later

Mikhail Chigorin Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; ; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style, he also served as a ma ...

. The critic and opera singer Mikhail Sariotti was responsible for its music section in the 1870s.

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 (; 1 July 1827, in Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia – 10 April 1891, in Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, arts historian and critic, genealogist, bibliographer, an honourable member of the Imperi ...

and

Sergey Shubinsky Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky (; 1834–1913) was a historian and journalist who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of Imperial Russia.Глинский Б. Б. Сергей Николаевич Шубинский. (1834— ...

, 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

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