Budilnik

Budilnik was a weekly Russian illustrated satirical journal published originally, in 1865—1871, in Saint Petersburg, then, in 1873—1917, in Moscow.

History and profile

The magazine was founded by the artist and caricaturist Nikolai Stepanov who for six years was its editor-in-chief. During this time Bidilnik was the leading force of political satire in Russia, warring with the right wing and conservative press, mostly Katkov's Moskovskiye Vedomosti and Krayevsky's Golos. The magazine's circulation reached its peak in 1866 and since then was slowly declining. In mid-1870s Budilnik became an apolitical, purely entertaining journal. Among his later editors were A.P. Sukhov, A.D. Kurepin, L.N. Utkin, E.G. Arnold, Nikolai Kicheyev, Vladimir Levinsky.
Among the authors who contributed to it regularly were Pyotr Weinberg, Liodor Palmin, Ivan Dmitriyev, Gavriil Zhulev, Nikolai Zlatovratsky, Dmitry Minayev, Alexander Levitov, Nikolai Leykin, Fyodor Reshetnikov, Vladimir Shchiglev, Mikhail Stopanovsky, Konstantin Stanyukovich, Gleb Uspensky, Anton Chekhov.