Author: Various
Title: Russkoe Bogatstvo. Ezhemesiachnyi Literaturnyi I Nauchnyi Zhurnal, No. 3, Mart 1884 / No. 11, Noiabr 1884 (Russian Wealth. Monthly Literary and Scientific Journal, No. 3, March 1884 / No. 11, November 1884)
Description: S.-Peterburg: Tipografiia A. S. Suvorina, 1884. Hardcover. Two volumes; 9†x 6†; pp. 511-710, [40] and pp. [1], 242-475, [7]; 1/4 roan and marbled boards; small paper labels to spines; rubbed spots along edges; No. 3 lacking half-title page; No. 11 illustrated with 2 pp. of steel engravings; previous owner’s signature to title pages; small stamps from a Sapper Army batallion’s library to ffep; good to very good condition. Russian Wealth was a literary, political, and scientific journal, published between 1876 and 1918, first founded in Moscow and then moved to St. Petersburg. The publication’s liberal, Narodnik (Populist) orientation was set early on, when Nikolai Zlatovratskii became the editor and later, after 1892, when Nikolai Mikhailovskii and Vladimir Korolenko took over the journal became immensely popular with the radical intelligentsia. Contributors to the publicistic and the fiction sections included Maxim Gorky, Uspensky, Annensky, Kuprin, and many others. The publication was intermittently harassed by censorship, temporarily banned in 1906 and 1914, and shut down for good in 1918 by the Bolshevik authorities. Ill.: 0. 2.

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