[Banned] Adskaya pochta (Hell's Mail): Weekly Illustrated Satirical Journal. No. 3: Olimp (Adskaya pochta: Ezhenedel'nyy illiustrirovannyy zhurnal satiry. No. 3: Olimp), 1906. In Russian

[Запрещённое издание] «Адская почта» : Еженедельный иллюстрированный журнал сатиры. № 3: Олимп.
Санкт-Петербург : Т-во Р. Голике и А. Вильборг, 1906.
[4] с., ил.; 30×26 см. Изд. Е. Е. Лансере, ред. П. Н. Троянский.
В издательской иллюстрированной обложке. Состояние: хорошее, следы от сгиба.
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[Banned publication] "Adskaya pochta" (Hell's Mail): Weekly Illustrated Satirical Journal. No. 3: Olimp (Adskaya pochta: Ezhenedel'nyy illiustrirovannyy zhurnal satiry. No. 3: Olimp).
St. Petersburg: T-vo R. Golike i A. Vilborg, 1906.
[4] pp., ill.; 30×26 cm. Publ. by E. E. Lanceray, ed. by P. N. Troiansky.
In publisher's illustrated cover. Condition: good, fold marks.

This is the third and final published issue of the legendary, short-lived satirical journal "Adskaya pochta" (Hell's Mail), a landmark publication of the 1905-1907 revolutionary period in Russia. Published in 1906 in St. Petersburg under the editorship of P. N. Troiansky and officially published by artist Evgeny Lanceray, the journal served as the direct successor to the banned magazine "Zhupel". Its core mission, declared in the first issue, was to fight "against violence and the violent, slavery and enslavers," offering a platform for sharp political satire sympathetic to the revolutionary cause. This specific issue, "Olimp" (Olympus), is dedicated entirely to political caricatures by Zinovii Grzhebin and Boris Kustodiev, graphically satirizing the highest tsarist officials, including P. N. Durnovo, P. A. Stolypin, and K. P. Pobedonostsev. The journal united an extraordinary constellation of Silver Age talents; among its contributors and prospective authors were writers Leonid Andreyev, Alexander Blok, Maxim Gorky, and Ivan Bunin, as well as artists Lev Bakst, Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Valentin Serov. Its existence was brief and fraught: only three issues saw the light of day before the fourth was confiscated at the print shop and the publication was definitively banned by the authorities. As a primary source of anti-monarchist sentiment and a pinnacle of Russian satirical graphics, any surviving copy, especially in good condition, represents an extreme bibliographic rarity and a highly valuable artifact of cultural and political history.