On May 16, 1924, the first issue of the magazine “Murzilka” was published in the USSR. “Murzilka” is a popular children's literary and art magazine. О is addressed to children of primary school age. Over the 89 years of existence of the beloved children's magazine, its publication has never been interrupted. In 2012, the magazine was included in the Guinness Book of Records: “Murzilka” is the children’s magazine with the longest period of publication.
The magazine is named after the fairy-tale creature, the yellow and fluffy Murzilka. But Murzilka got its name thanks to a mischievous and prankster - a little man named Cholly Boutonniere, who was invented and drawn by the Canadian artist Palmer Cox at the end of the 19th century for a series of illustrated stories "Brownies" ( Brownies). It was a little man in a tailcoat, with a cane and a monocle. With the light hand of the translator Anna Khvolson, the brownie-dandy in the Russian edition of "Domovykh" began to be called a murza, that is, a prince. 
In 1924, the image of Murzilka changed to the image of an ordinary small dog, helping everyone who is in trouble. But Murzilka in the guise of a puppy did not last long. 
In 1937, the famous artist Aminadav Kanevsky created a new image of Murzilka. 
Since then, in the children's publication "Murzilka" there has been a yellow hero, in a red beret and scarf, with a camera slung over his shoulder. And the kids really like it. 
"Murzilka" is a mirror of our children's literature. He is the link between readers and writers. For many children living in the periphery, the magazine still serves as an addition to literature textbooks. On May 16, 2014, the magazine "Murzilka" will turn 90 years old! The editors of the magazine announced a congratulations competition for the publication's anniversary. Details
"Murzilka" is closely connected with the life and interests of young readers and responds very vividly to them. That is why the magazine is also necessary for adults working with children: teachers, educators, librarians, parents. For this purpose, the magazine contains a variety of materials.
The headings “Walks with Words” and “Let’s Play with Words” serve to expand readers’ linguistic understanding and study the Russian language. They publish: fairy tales, poems, tongue twisters, which contribute to the mastery of the Russian language, speech culture, and teach spelling standards. These sections contain entertaining questions, tasks, and competitions, which especially attracts readers and encourages them to be active.
In categories “Fun Mathematics”, “Green World” present difficult problems in an entertaining, and often poetic form, tasks that attract the attention of readers, their older brothers, sisters and parents.
For more than 25 years, the magazine has been running the column “Murzilka Art Gallery”. It introduces children to the peculiarities of the work of outstanding artists, with reproductions of masterpieces of domestic and world painting. Comments from art critics help shape the aesthetic views of readers.
The magazine also publishes materials that tell about great geographical discoveries, famous travelers of the distant past and our time (the section “Travel and Discoveries”); Issues of legal education, psychology, ethics, communication culture, rules of behavior in extreme situations are constantly covered (headings “Let's have a heart-to-heart talk”, “Safety School”).
Much attention is paid to useful leisure time. Each room provides a variety of homemade items.
Inside the magazine there are tabs and flaps on which educational games, crosswords, and assignments are located. Tabs can be cut out, crossword puzzles can be collected in separate books, and reproductions of paintings can be taken out of a magazine.
In recent years, the magazine has changed: each issue has separate supplements, neatly stapled in the middle of the magazine. There are various applications: “Murzilka Art Gallery”, board games, coloring books, homemade products, stickers, patterns, posters, etc. You can subscribe to the magazine from any issue.
In addition, the editorial staff of the magazine constantly communicates directly with its readers: organizes meetings for them with the editorial team, writers and artists of Murzilka; organizes art exhibitions.
The exhibition is a selection of more than one hundred and fifty works by artists who collaborated with the magazine over the years. These are: K. Rotov, A. Kanevsky, A. Brey, Y. Pimenov, V. Suteev, Y. Vasnetsov, V. Konashevich, Y. Korovin, V. Kurdov, V. Lebedev, F. Lemkul, T. Mavrina, A. Pakhomov, E. Charushin, V. Favorsky, E. Rachev, M. Miturich, G. Makaveeva, Y. Kopeiko, V. Chizhikov, V. Losin, L. Tokmakov, A. Sokolov, V. Dmitryuk and others. The exhibition has already visited many cities in Russia, near and far abroad and can, at the request of the inviting party, move to any destination where interest is shown in it.
"Murzilka" is a popular children's literary and art magazine. Published since May 1924 and addressed to children from 6 to 12 years old. Over the 88 years of existence of the beloved children's magazine, its publication has never been interrupted.
Magazine "Murzilka"
It is named after the fairy-tale creature yellow and fluffy Murzilka. Murzilka got its name thanks to the mischievous and prankster - a little forest man who existed in popular books for children of the late 19th century. It was a little man in a tailcoat, with a cane and a monocle. Then the image of the forest Murzilka changed to the image of an ordinary small dog, helping everyone who is in trouble. But Murzilka in the guise of a puppy did not last long. In 1937, the famous artist Aminadav Kanevsky created a new image of Murzilka. Since then, in the children's publication “Murzilka” there has been a yellow hero, in a red beret and scarf, with a camera slung over his shoulder. And the kids really like it.
Magazine "Murzilka"
The main difference between the children's magazine "Murzilka" is its high-quality children's literature. Over the years, Agnia Barto, Korney Chukovsky, S. Marshak, M. Prishvin, K. Paustovsky, V. Berestov, Yu. Korinets collaborated with the magazine. Currently, the magazine also publishes works by contemporary children's writers. Murzilka publishes children's fairy tales, fairy tales, children's stories, plays, and children's poems. New modern poems and stories for children are published in the magazine along with established classics for children: poems by Mikhalkov and Barto, which the parents of today's children grew up with.
The magazine "Murzilka" is a mirror of our children's literature. He is the link between readers and children's literature. Parents cannot always find good books for children in the current variety of children's publications - the editors of Murzilka do a lot of work to select the best examples of children's literature, and children's artists create bright and memorable illustrations for them. For many children living in the periphery, the magazine still serves as an addition to literature textbooks. "Murzilka" is not only a children's newspaper with stories and fairy tales for children, it is also useful children's reading. The regular columns of the magazine are full of interesting, educational materials that are a worthy addition to the in-depth study of school subjects: the Russian language (“Walks with Words”), natural history (flora and fauna of the planet), labor (achievements of science and technology in the columns), physical education ( “Champion”), life safety (“Safety School”), fine arts (“Going to the Museum”, “Art Gallery”, “Murzilka Art Gallery”). Each issue of "Murzilka" contains games and crosswords, riddles and puzzles, rebuses, coloring books and several homemade constructions.
Despite the considerable age of Murzilka, it remains modern and relevant. Keeping up with the times, and considering that one of the main entertainments for children now is the computer, Murzilka has mastered the Internet - children now have access to an electronic version of their favorite magazine. We bring to your attention the children's website of the Murzilka magazine. The magazine has always strived to satisfy the desires and requests of its readers, so on our children's portal you will find all the most interesting and exciting things. On the website for children of the Murzilka magazine there are sections in which you will find children's competitions, puzzles and games, children's crosswords, children's jokes, children's rhymes and many other children's entertainment. By visiting the "Coloring Pages" section, you will see a variety of coloring pages for children that you can print and color. The site regularly hosts fun quizzes and competitions (for example, a children's drawing competition), in which Murzilka readers can take part. In addition, we suggest visiting the “Forum” and “Chat” sections, where you can chat with peers and find new friends.
I often see the word “Murzilka” used in Internet slang. And you’ve probably heard it more than once with a modern meaning. What does it mean now? An offensive version of the word “virtual”? Please clarify in the comments...
In the meantime, we’ll talk about the history and origin of this word.
Story Murzilki began in 1879, when the Canadian artist Palmer Cox created a series of drawings about Brownies - these are the closest relatives of brownies, small people, about 90 centimeters tall, similar to little elves with brown unkempt hair and bright blue eyes (because of the brown color of their hair they are called “brownies”). Their skin is predominantly light, although the color of a brownie's skin depends on where they live and what they eat. These creatures come at night and finish what the servants did not finish. But this was just a test before the real creation of those images that would later win over the public. So in 1881, exactly those same brownies appeared in the magazine “Wide Awake”, which began a triumphal march, first across America, and then throughout the world.
In February 1883, Cox began publishing in the New York children's publication St. Nicholas" pictures from brownie, accompanied by poems about the adventures of the heroes. And four years later, the first book “The Brownies, Their Book” was published, which contained a collection of stories about brownies and which sold a million copies. In total, Palmer Cox created 15 original brownie books before his death in 1924.
By the way, Cox's brownies did not have names as such - they were called by characteristic nicknames, such as Chinese, Sailor, Dandy, Jockey, Russian, Hindu, King, Student, Policeman, Canadian, etc.
Murzilka and his friends first appeared on the pages of the magazine “Sincere Word” in 1887 in the fairy tale “A boy as big as a finger, a girl as big as a nail.” The author of this tale was the famous writer Anna Borisovna Khvolson, and the illustrations were drawings by the artist Palmer Cox.
The first edition of the book “The Kingdom of Little Ones,” including 27 stories and 182 drawings, was published in 1889, followed by reprints in 1898, 1902 and 1915.
In 1913, a book with drawings by Palmer Cox and Russian text from Anna Khvolson “New Murzilka. Amazing adventures and wanderings of little forest people." Anna Khvolson made a free translation of Cox's texts, giving the characters other names: Maz-Permaz, Dedko-Borodach, Znayka, Dunno, clever Skok, hunter Mick, Vertushka, Chinese Chi-ka-chi, Indian Ski, Mikrobka, American John, etc. p. Well, actually Murzilka, on whose behalf the story was told.
And it turned out that Murzilka impossibly similar to the famous Nosovsky Dunno. He is the same braggart, lazy and troublemaker, who, because of his character, constantly gets into various troubles. However, these two heroes also have differences. Murzilka, for example, a real dandy. A tailcoat or long coat, top hat, boots with narrow toes, a cane and a monocle are indispensable components of his everyday costume.
So Dunno’s predilection for defiantly bright colors in clothes would have unpleasantly struck Murzilka’s refined taste. But this difference is purely external. Although the character Murzilki or, as his friends call him, “Empty Head” is quite similar to the character of his literary descendant; Dunno is written out in much more detail and volume. And if Khvolson’s hero is deliberately caricatured and conventional, then Nosov’s is a lively, charming and recognizable boy. Therefore, probably, over the careless and boastful Murzilka readers just laugh, but they often sympathize with Dunno, sincerely pity and love him.
So, the name Murzilka was born in 1913. Two years later, Anna Khvelson released an independent work called “The Kingdom of Little Ones. Adventures Murzilki and the Woodland Men,” which was illustrated by the works of the same Palmer Cox, but since it was not included in the official Brownie bibliography, it can be considered a remake.
He was a boy in a black tailcoat, with a huge white flower in his buttonhole, in a silk top hat and long-toed boots that were fashionable at that time... He also always had an elegant cane and monocle in his hands. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, these tales were very popular. Myself Murzilka, according to the plot of the fairy tale, he constantly found himself in some funny stories. But after the 1917 revolution, the book was no longer published, and everyone forgot about this hero.
Next time o Murzilka remembered in 1924, when a new children's magazine was created under the Rabochaya Gazeta. One of the founders remembered this name and it was accepted almost unanimously. But don’t put a brownie on the cover! That's why Murzilka became a red mongrel puppy who accompanied his owner, the boy Petka, everywhere. His friends also changed - now they were pioneers, Octobrists, as well as their parents. However, the puppy did not exist for long - he soon disappeared, and Petka subsequently disappeared from the pages of the magazine.
It is traditionally believed that a certain fluffy yellow creature was born into the world by the artist Aminadav Kanevsky at the request of the editors in 1937. However, back in the 50s Murzilka was a little man wearing an acorn hat on his head instead of a beret. He appeared like this in several cartoons, the latest of which is “ Murzilka on satellite" - was created in 1960. It was this beret that later became an indispensable attribute of Murzilka, when it turned yellow and overgrown.
Soon other heroes began to appear in this magazine - evil sorceress Yabeda-Koryabeda, talking cat Shunka, Magpie-Balabolka, Sportlendik and Ladybug. All these characters became the hosts of the main sections of the magazine - funny and entertaining stories, curiosity questions, a sports page, stories about nature.
The best children's writers were published on the pages of “Murzilka”: Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Sergei Mikhalkov, Boris Zakhoder, Agnia Barto. The smallest Murzilka“instilled a love of learning with the help of bright pictures, interesting plots and playful poems.
In 1977 - 1983. The magazine published “A detective-mysterious story about Yabeda-Koryabeda and her 12 agents” (author and artist A. Semenov) and its continuations. Often the magazine took on topics that were far from children's. For kids who have only recently learned to read, “ Murzilka“talked about the conquest of space, the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, the 1980 Olympics, and even explained the ideology of the party - “To the October Revolution about Communists.”
Magazine " Murzilka"is still published. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as "the longest-running children's magazine."
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The magazine publishes fairy tales, fairy tales, short stories, plays, and poems. Its main authors are modern talented writers, artists and classics of children's literature. Often the authors of the magazine are the readers themselves.
Modern "Murzilka" is full of interesting, educational materials - history, achievements of science and technology, sports, the most important events of today. Materials on such topics attract not only young readers, but also their parents. With a variety of topics and interesting presentation, the magazine strives to satisfy the ever-growing demands of its readers.
There are topics that are not exhausted by publication in several issues, but continue for a longer time. This is the Murzilka Art Gallery. "Gallery" introduces reproductions of paintings - masterpieces of domestic and world painting, the life and work of artists. Stories about them and reproductions of paintings are printed on tabs; you can cut them out and collect your own art collection.
From issue to issue, materials are printed to supplement the primary school curriculum, recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. This includes the “Safety School” and fun lessons in mathematics and the Russian language, combined into a separate section-application “Puzzles, Games, Ideas”.
Interesting not only for children, but for the whole family are “Murzilka’s advice”, “Murzilka’s Adventures”, homemade products, competitions, quizzes, which provide not only interesting information, encourage creativity, but also develop useful skills.
The editors receive many letters from teachers and parents, in which they report that the Murzilka magazine has become a friend and assistant for them, note the versatility of the magazine, and approve of the presence of interesting and useful information, knowledge that expands school curricula. The magazine “Murzilka”, familiar to you since childhood, has been delighting readers with its existence for more than 83 years. Since the last time you held it in your hands, the magazine has changed a lot. And we want to provide more recent information about it.
It is named after a fairy-tale creature - the yellow and fluffy Murzilka. Today Murzilka lives on the pages of the magazine as he was drawn in 1937 by the famous artist Aminadav Moiseevich Kanevsky.
The basis of the magazine is fiction. It fulfills the main task - it brings up the best moral qualities in the child: kindness, honesty, justice, responsiveness. In the years when our country was experiencing a shortage of books for children, “Murzilka” was the link between the reader and children’s literature. For many children living in the periphery or in other countries, the magazine still serves as a supplement to literature textbooks, and also introduces them to new works by modern authors.
“Murzilka” is closely connected with the life and interests of young readers and responds very vividly to them. That is why the magazine is also necessary for adults in their work with children - teachers, educators, librarians, parents. For this purpose, the magazine contains a variety of materials.
The headings “Walks with Words” and “Let’s Play with Words” serve to expand readers’ linguistic understanding and study the Russian language. They publish: fairy tales, poems, tongue twisters, which contribute to the mastery of the Russian language, speech culture, and teach spelling standards. These sections contain entertaining questions, tasks, and competitions, which especially attracts readers and encourages them to be active.
In the sections “Fun Mathematics” and “Green World”, difficult problems and tasks are given in an entertaining, and often poetic form, tasks that attract the attention of readers, their older brothers, sisters and parents.
For more than 15 years, the magazine has been running the column “Murzilka Art Gallery”. It introduces children to the peculiarities of the work of outstanding artists, with reproductions of paintings that are masterpieces of domestic and world painting. Comments from art critics help shape the aesthetic views of readers.
The magazine also publishes materials that tell about great geographical discoveries, famous travelers of the distant past and our time; Issues of legal education, psychology, ethics, communication culture, and rules of behavior in extreme situations are constantly covered.
Pays great attention to useful leisure time. Each room provides a variety of homemade items.
Inside the magazine there are tabs and flaps on which educational games, crosswords, and assignments are located. Tabs can be cut out, crossword puzzles can be collected in separate books, and reproductions of paintings can be taken out of a magazine.
In recent years, the magazine has changed: each issue has separate supplements, neatly stapled in the middle of the magazine. There are various applications: “Murzilka Art Gallery”, board games, coloring books, homemade products, stickers, patterns, posters, etc. You can subscribe to the magazine from any issue.
In addition, the editorial staff of the magazine constantly communicates directly with its readers: organizes meetings for them with the editorial team, the authors of “Murzilka”: writers and artists; organizes art exhibitions.
The exhibition is a selection of more than one hundred and fifty works by artists who collaborated with the magazine over the years. These are: K. Rotov, A. Kanevsky, A. Brey, Y. Pimenov, V. Suteev, Y. Vasnetsov, V. Konashevich, Y. Korovin, V. Kurdov, V. Lebedev, F. Lemkul, T. Mavrina, A. Pakhomov, E. Charushin, V. Favorsky, E. Rachev, M. Miturich, G. Makaveeva, Y. Kopeiko, V. Chizhikov, V. Losin, L. Tokmakov, A. Sokolov, V. Dmitryuk and others. The exhibition has already visited many cities in Russia, near and far abroad and can, at the request of the inviting party, move to any destination where interest is shown in it.
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