Adolph Fedorovitch Marx (1838 – 1904) – the Saint-Petersburg publisher, founder of the first in Russia mass circulation illustrated magazine Niva, which was distributed with gratuitous supplement of collected works of the best national and foreign writers.

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Adolph Fedorovitch Marx (1838 – 1904) – the Saint-Petersburg publisher, founder of the first in Russia mass circulation illustrated magazine Niva, which was distributed with gratuitous supplement of collected works of the best national and foreign writers.

A.F. Marx published not only the belles-lettres, but as well as the books of natural science, arts, geography along with the gift editions of large formats. The skillful combination of the magazine and book publication businesses enabled A.F. Marx, with decreasing the prices for the books, to increase their circulations, thus making the literature published by him to be of moderate prices and competitive.

The A.F. Marx’s Publishing House, which was established in 1869, after his death was reorganized into the joint stock company "The Partnership of the Publication and the Press Business of A.F. Marx".

In assessing the A.F. Marx’s activities the writer Leonid Andreev said, that it gave to K. Marx "the right for eternal gratitude from the Russian people".