Fragments was a Russian humorous, literary and artistic weekly magazine published in St Petersburg from 1881 to 1916.

From 1881 to 1906 Fragments was published by the popular writer Nikolay Leykin

Nikolay Leykin

-Biography:Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subject of the majority of his fiction. His popular work Our Folk Abroad, set in Paris, which went through twenty-five editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business...

. From 1906 to 1908 it was ran by the humorist Viktor Bilibin.

In the 1880s Fragments was known as the most liberal of Russian humorous magazines. Fragments played an important part in the early career of Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

. From 1882 to 1887 Fragments published more than 270 of Chekhov's works.

Poets and writers

• Alexander Amfiteatrov
• Anton Chekhov
• Vladimir Gilyarovsky
  Vladimir Gilyarovsky
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• Pyotr Gnedich
• Evgeny Kohn
• Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is...
  
  
• Konstantin Lydov
• Vladimir Mazurkevich
• Lyodor Palmin
• Nikolay Poznyakov