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The Russian Gazette
also: Русская газета
A fictitious newspaper whose mock obituary forms the second half of the sketch, its absurdly large staff of '1,144 publishers' mourning its own death as a satire of the era's crowded periodical trade.
Reading notes
- The Executors of the Merchant Vislyaev §2 The Russian Gazette
A fictitious newspaper whose 'obituary' forms the sketch's second mock-notice; the absurdly large staff of '1,144 publishers' mourning its own death is the joke, spoofing the era's crowded and short-lived periodical trade.
- In the American Style §2 the \emph{Russian Gazette}
A stand-in name for the crowded, self-important Russian periodical press of the day; the narrator's 'two idlers' who 'instruct mankind' in its pages mock the moralizing tone common to such papers.