Ezhemesyachnyya literaturnyya i populyarno-nauchnyya prilozheniya k zhurnalu „Ni…

Ezhemesyachnyya literaturnyya i populyarno-nauchnyya prilozheniya k zhurnalu "Ni

Niva – Ezhemesyachnyya literaturnyya i populyarno-nauchnyya prilozheniya k zhurnalu „Niva“. 1911 god, tom III. S.-Peterburg, A.F.Marks, 1911. 8°. 700 pages, illustrated. Contemporary half cloth, marmored edges. Good condition, but with several bookseller stamps.

Monthly literary and popular scientific supplements to the „Niva“ magazine for 1911, vl. III. With a text by M. P. Chekhov, the sister of Anton Chekhov, poems by Balmont, Trubezkoi, Afanasiev… And with several chess play samples.
Rare volume of the literature magazine NIVA published from 1870 until 1917, founded ba A.F. Marks, He saw that Russia lacked a moderatly prices magazine of general interest. He intented to be NIVA to be a political neutral family magazine, but the periodical soon outgrew his original purpose and became an ambitious vehicle for the dissemination of good literature in the provinces. It was read by an audience that extended from primary schoolteachers, rural parish priests and the urban middle class to the gentry“. ( Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read).

Preis: EUR 340,--