Sparks 1901. From the history of periodical printing in Russia

In 1901, the largest Russian publisher Ivan Dmitrievich Satin issued an application to the newspaper Russian Word - a new humorous magazine Sparks.
News and reports published in the magazine, secular chronicles and fashion reviews, poems and feuilleons. The subject of humorous materials was wide - from jokes about marital infidelity to the economic and social problems of Russia and Moscow. Pictures in Iskra are characteristic of the magazine graphics of those years - expressive household sketches. Topical and sharp caricatures were printed both in color and black and white.
With Sparks - famous at the beginning of the 20th century magazine - connected by A.P. Chekhov, V.A. Gilyarovsky, V.M. Doroshevich, as well as artists - M. Mukhin, I. Klang, O. Renar.
A modern reader will curious to find out how the society of the beginning of the last century applied to the decisions of the city Duma relative to handicraft production (read, small businesses), antisanitarians in the cunning market and the ocotric row, and the most remarkable materials of the Satiro-humorous magazine are included in the publication " Sparks" for 1901, unique photo and illustration material, rare postcards with views of Moscow early XX century.
The reader is involved in the atmosphere of Moscow of the beginning of the 20th century, he is offered an amazing opportunity - to look at the XX, even the XXI century through the eyes of our predecessors. In the ring of satirical light, the reader will see the origins of today"s problems in the economy, the development of housing and communal services and the cultural environment of Moscow and the country as a whole