Sreda Explained

The Moscow Literary Sreda (Russian: Моско́вская Литерату́рная Cреда|Moskovskaya Literaturnaya Sreda/Moskovskaja Literaturnaja Sreda) was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolai Teleshov. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

List of Sreda members

• • Leonid Andreyev Pyotr Boborykin
• Ivan Bunin
  • Fyodor Chaliapin Anton Chekhov (Visitor)
• Evgeny Chirikov
• Sergey Elpatyevsky
• Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (Visitor)
• Maxim Gorky
• Evgeny Goslavsky
• Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky
  • Aleksandr Kuprin Vladimir Korolenko (Visitor)
• Isaac Levitan
  • Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov
• Alexander Serafimovich
• Ivan Shmelyov
• Stepan Skitalets
• Fyodor Sologub (Visitor)
• Nikolai Teleshov
• Viktor Vasnetsov
• Vikenty Veresaev
• Semyon Yushkevich
• Boris Zaytsev
• Nikolai Zlatovratsky

See also

• Znanie Publishers

Notes and References

1. Handbook of Russian Literature, Victor Terras, Yale University Press 1990.
2. A Writer Remembers by Nikolay Teleshov, Hutchinson, NY, 1943.
3. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). 2010, The Gale Group, Inc.
4. Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 1998.