Rebus
St Petersburg weekly edited by Victor Pribitkov. Initially a paper of riddles, it became an organ of Spiritualism and mediumism in Russia; de Zirkoff notes important holdings in the New York Public Library. (BCW 6:451).
In January 1886 it published a Russian version of “The Cave of the Echoes” which differs from the English text. Attribution of the translation to H. P. Blavatsky is tentative, not established (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 1:338).
Published H. P. Blavatsky’s letter to its editor V. Pribitkov in no. 37 of 1885. An English translation appeared in Theosophia in November–December 1948. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 6:406-407)Mentioned in:
- The Cave of the Echoes – note on the Russian version of the story (BCW 1:338)
- Letter from H.P. Blavatsky to the Editor of Rebus (BCW 6:406-407)
Some links:
- Related pages: Quotations
- CTD article in Russian: Ребус (периодика)
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Short description: Russian periodical which published a Russian version of “The Cave of the Echoes”.