A machine gun. No. 4: Text and themes by N. Shebuev.

A machine gun. No. 4: Text and themes by N. Shebuev.
St. Petersburg. Printing house of St. Petersburg. Partnership "Trud", 1905. - 12 p., fig. Publisher's illustrated cover; non-standard format (32 x 29.5 m). The cover is worn and dirty, has tears, losses, including on the spine, is separated from the block; pages with tears, losses along the perimeter.

[The first issue of the Machine Gun appeared on November 13, 1905. He played the role of a revolutionary proclamation. Instead of a system of hints and innuendos, the language of direct political denunciations, previously possible only in illegal literature, was used.

Editor-publisher Shebuyev and a young artist, a student of Repin Grabovsky on the back cover of the magazine No. 1 placed the tsar's manifesto with the imprint of the bloody five with the inscription: "Major-General Trepov put his hand to this list of His Majesty's Retinue." Shebuyev, who dared to ridicule the tsar's manifesto, was immediately arrested, becoming the first victim of press freedom. Sentenced to a year in prison, he continued to write texts for the magazine and passed them on to his wife. Thus, while the editor was sitting, the magazine with his texts and his signature continued to be published. In addition to Grabovsky, the magazine was also used by artists A. Ivanov, V. S. Svarog, and M. Sviridenko. Nos. 1 and 5 were confiscated.

Privalov, V. Satirical print of the first Russian Revolution (1905-1908). St. Petersburg, 2018. pp. 12-16.]