[Banned] Signal (The Signal): Illustrated Organ of Political Satire. 1905. Nos. 2, 3 ("Signal": Illyustrirovannyy organ politicheskoy satiry), 1905. In Russian

[Запрещённое и конфискованное издание] «Сигнал» : Иллюстрированный орган политической сатиры. 1905. № 2, 3.
Санкт-Петербург : Паровая типо-лит. Н. Л. Ныркина, 1905.
35×24, 31×22,5 см. В издательских иллюстрированных обложках.
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[Banned and confiscated publication] "Signal" (The Signal): Illustrated Organ of Political Satire. 1905. Nos. 2, 3 ("Signal": Illyustrirovannyy organ politicheskoy satiry).
St. Petersburg: Parovaya tipo-lit. N. L. Nyrkina, 1905.
35×24, 31×22.5 cm. In publisher's illustrated covers.

These two issues are from one of the most vivid and popular satirical journals of the First Russian Revolution of 1905–1907 — "Signal" (The Signal). Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the publisher, inspiration, and editor was the 23-year-old Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882–1969), later a world-renowned children's writer and poet. The journal united a number of well-known literary figures, including Osip Dymov, Fyodor Sologub, Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya), and Olga Chumina. The journal was financed with the support of the opera singer Leonid Sobinov. "Signal" relentlessly and sharply criticized Emperor Nicholas II, the government, and state repression, using parodies, satirical mathematical "problems," and altered famous paintings. The main colors in its design were black and red, the latter symbolizing revolutionary energy and blood.

After the third issue, Chukovsky was charged with insulting the Majesty and undermining the foundations of the state, and was arrested. The fourth issue was published while the publisher was in prison. Although the court issued an acquittal in March 1906, the journal was permanently banned, and its print runs confiscated. Chukovsky was also stripped of his editor's title for five years. A total of 4 issues of "Signal" were published in November-December 1905. These journals are not only an outstanding monument of political satire and graphic art of their time but also a supreme bibliographic rarity due to their mass destruction by the authorities.