OGONYOK. 1910 [COMPLETE YEAR'S RUN] Weekly illustrated literary and arts magazine. St Petersburg: S.M. Propper, 1899–1918.

1910: Nos. 1–52, lacking No. 20. Nos. 3 and 10 bound in twice. In a contemporary half-leather binding. Spine gilt-lettered with the title, year of publication and the supralibros ‘P.B.’. Rubbing to the spine, loss of leather to the corners of the boards, soiling and minor damage to the paper covering of the rear board and to the endpapers. Text block in good condition, with slight traces of damp along the fore-edge. Missing pages in individual issues have been replaced with high-quality modern facsimiles (Nos. 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 40, 42, 45 and 51). The magazine features photographic reports on the first international aviation competitions held in Russia, including performances by the aviators Popov and Baroness de Laroche. It also covers the major St Petersburg–Kiev–Moscow motor rally, whose participants included Prince Murat and Princess Dolgorukaya; the accession of George V (a cousin of Emperor Nicholas II) to the British throne and the grand mourning ceremonies in London, which brought together Europe's ruling elite on the eve of the First World War; and the official chronicle of the Russian Imperial family's life at the height of the Empire's stability, before the upheavals that were to follow. The volume also contains stories published during the lifetimes of A. Averchenko, Teffi, Sasha Chorny and Leonid Andreev, alongside works by poets of the new generation. Nos. 46 and 47 are devoted to the death and funeral of Leo Tolstoy at Astapovo and Yasnaya Polyana.