Hermann Hoppe

Hermann Hoppe was a prominent Russian publisher, the founder of the Hermann Hoppe Publishing House which functioned in Saint Petersburg in 1867–1914. He is best remembered as a founder and publisher of Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya, the first Russian illustrated weekly for family reading.
His other projects included the journal Graphic Art Review, the Common Saint Petersburg Address Book, the highly popular Common Calendar, a book of general recommendations called Good Manners, as well as Fashion and News, later to be known as Modny Svet, the extravagantly illustrated fashion magazine for ladies which Anton Chekhov was well acquainted with and often mentioned in his early stories.
It was Hoppe who in 1879 founded the now well-known Ogonyok. Several of Hoppe's Anniversary albums, like "Peter the Great. The 200th Anniversary Album" or "The Album of Russian Fairytales and Bylinas" became priced rarities.
His Katalog der wichtigeren, hervorragenden und besseren Schriften deutscher Literatur, welche in den Jahren 1801 bis Ende 1868 erschienen sind written in German, has been described as 'unique'. Hoppe was one of the founders of the Russian Society of Booksellers and Publishers which published Knizhny Vestnik in 1884–1916.