A Russian illustrated magazine. 1703-1941
The publication included annotations to 775 magazines, as well as 531 images — covers, frontes, title sheets, and illustrations of 163 magazines. The book continues the tradition of the best publications in the Russian periodical press. Unlike previous publications of this kind, it has for the first time created a holistic picture of the aesthetic addictions of publishers, journalists and artists of three centuries of Russian journalism.
«The Budilnik» is a satirical magazine with cartoons, and a model of all subsequent cartoon and humorous publications in Russia. The sketched human alarm clock is trying to awaken society. For the first years, the Budjnik is full of violent political attacks that make fun of the «freedom» that came into the country after the peasant reform. He regularly published reactions to foreign policy developments.
The Children’s Museum is a collection of images of animals, plants, flowers, fruits, minerals, clothing, different peoples in their natural form, antiquities and other subjects serving the guidance and entertainment of youth, compiled and graveled according to the best models, with a brief explanation corresponding to the concept of children. It is the first illustrated children’s magazine, a type of encyclopedic atlas, which included initial information on ancient history and mythology, botanicals, biology, geology and other fields of knowledge.
