[Banned] Strely (Arrows): A Sarcastic, Fearless and Merciless Journal. Nos. 3-7 ("Strely": Zhurnal sarkasticheskiy, bestrashnyy i besposhchadnyy), 1905. In Russian

[Запрещённое издание] «Стрелы» : Журнал саркастический, бесстрашный и беспощадный. №№ 3-7.
Санкт-Петербург : Типо-лит. «Энергия»; «Америк. скоропечатня», 1905.
По 12 с., ил.; 31,5×23,3 см. Ред.-издатель И. М. Кнорозовский.
В издательских иллюстрированных обложках. В хорошем состоянии.
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[Banned publication] "Strely" (Arrows): A Sarcastic, Fearless and Merciless Journal. Nos. 3-7 ("Strely": Zhurnal sarkasticheskiy, bestrashnyy i besposhchadnyy).
St. Petersburg: Tipo-lit. "Energiya"; "Amerik. skoropechatnya", 1905.
12 pp. each, ill.; 31.5×23.3 cm. Editor-publisher I. M. Knorozovsky.
In publisher's illustrated covers. In good condition.

This is a set of five consecutive issues (Nos. 3-7) of the legendary and short-lived satirical journal "Strely" (Arrows), which was the first publication of its kind to appear after the October Manifesto of 1905. Edited and published by I. M. Knorozovsky, the journal lived up to its self-proclaimed description as "sarcastic, fearless, and merciless" by savagely lampooning the empty promises of the Tsarist government and the perceived weakness of the liberal opposition. Its publication fate was a testament to the brief and precarious period of press freedom: Issue No. 5 was confiscated, No. 9 was ordered destroyed by a court, and the entire publication was officially banned by the St. Petersburg Judicial Chamber on January 11, 1906. The survival of a complete block of five sequential issues, including the notoriously confiscated No. 5, represents an extraordinary bibliographic rarity. This collection serves as a primary historical document of the intense but fleeting era of revolutionary satire during the First Russian Revolution.