Murzilka

Murzilka
Murzilka

First Issue of Murzilka
Tatyana Androsenko Editor-in-Chief
Former editors Anatoly Mityaev
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 75,000
First issue 16 May 1924
Country  Soviet Union
 Russia
Based in Moscow, Russia
Language Russian
Website http://www.murzilka.org/
ISSN 0132-1943

Murzilka (Russian: Мурзилка) is a popular Soviet/Russian illustrated magazine for children 6–12 years old produced from May 1924 to present days.

History

At the end of 19th century Canadian illustrator and writer Palmer Cox created a cycle of poems about the little people brownie. Later Russian author Anna Hvolson on the grounds of his drawings had written stories about little forest men, where the main character dressed in white tie, with a walking stick and monocle was named "Murzilka" by her.

First issue came out on May 16, 1924 in the Soviet Union. Here Murzilka was a small white dog and appeared with his owner-boy Petya.

On 1927-28 in the magazine was issued Murzilka Newspaper.

In 1937 an illustrator Aminadav Kanevsky created became known in the USSR image of Murzilka – yellow furry character in a red beret with a scarf and camera over his shoulder.

In Murzilka started creative way of such writers as Samuil Marshak, Sergey Mikhalkov, Elena Blaginina, Boris Zahoder, Agniya Barto, Nikolay Nosov, Marina Uspenskaya.

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