Entertainment. Volume XI. no. 1-4, 5 [front cover only], 17-25. Literary and humorous magazine with political ...

Entertainment. Volume XI. no. 1-4, 5 [front cover only], 17-25. Literary and humorous magazine with political pages. Filing.
Moscow. O. B. Miller printing house, 1864 Hard combined owner's binding, encyclopedic format (24 x 30 cm).

Condition not complete; poor-satisfactory:

No. 1. On the cover of the seal, inventory numbers; all pages are dented, frayed around the perimeter, have losses; missing page 7/8.

# 2. penetrating temporary spots; dirt on the lower right corner of the pages, tears, scuffs around the perimeter; missing page 47/48.

 No. 3. penetrating temporary spots; dirt on the lower right corner of the pages, tears, scuffs along the perimeter; page 59/62 separately from the block.

# 5. Only the cover with a significant loss.

№ 17. Cover with significant loss and separate from the block; page 259/262 separate from the block; no pages 263/264; dirt on the lower right corner of the pages, tears, scuffs around the perimeter.

# 18-22, 24. Temporary spots; minor traces of moisture; dirt on the lower right corner of the pages, tears, scuffs along the perimeter; p. 315-318 separately from the block.

№ 23. Temporary spots; slight traces of moisture; dirt on the lower right corner of the pages, tears, scuffs along the perimeter; the last sheet is missing half vertically.

№ 25. Temporary spots; slight traces of moisture; dirt on the lower right corner of the pages, tears, scuffs around the perimeter; pages 395-398 separately from the block, heavily dented; pages 399/400 separately from the block, has a significant loss in the lower right corner.

["Entertainment" — Russian illustrated literary and artistic humor magazine, published in Moscow weekly in 1859-1916 (?) years.

The sources have different versions about the closing date of the magazine. According to some sources, the publication ceased operations in 1905; according to other sources, it was published until 1918.

At the origins of the magazine was Fyodor Miller, who combined the duties of publisher and editor until 1881; in the future, the owners of "Entertainment" often changed.

The magazine published poems, short stories, and novellas; the brand name of Entertainment was cartoons printed in each issue. 

The parodist poet Boris Almazov, scientist Vladimir Dal, writer Alexander Levitov, publicist Tikhon Geroldov (under the pseudonym "Frou-Frou"), poet and journalist Dmitry Minaev collaborated with the publication; Anton Chekhov gave his early stories to Entertainment.

In the founding documents, "Entertainment "was listed as"a literary and humorous magazine with political pages". The publication was among the first to master print graphics; thanks to this technology, the editorial office was able to attract artists of different genres to collaborate.

Cartoonists Nikolai Yefimovich Rachkov and Nikolai Vasilyevich Ievlev worked in the magazine; students of the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture brought drawings to the editorial office; sometimes Mikhail Osipovich Mikeshin posted his works. 

From the day of its Foundation, Lavr Lavrovich Belyankin, who was famous for his harsh attitude to the heroes of his cartoons, worked in "Entertainment". He chose the topics himself, did not tolerate dictates and, according to Gilyarovsky, "never went against the authorities." Belyankin was especially irreconcilable to the capital's merchants: in one of the illustrations published in the magazine, he depicted a representative of the Khludov dynasty, before whom a man with a vodka damask stands in a half — bow-Nikolai Ivanovich Pastukhov.

In 1914, Vlas doroshevich, in an article about Moscow cartoonists, called Belyankin a representative of "the heroic times of Russian humor" and "a remnant of long ago".]