Julius Karlovich Bostrem

Background

Julius Karlovich Bostrem was born in ca.1830 in Odessa, Odes'ka Oblast', Ukraine.

Career

Since 1864, Julius Karlovich published his caricatures in the magazine Iskra. He was a regular contributor to many Odessa publications, among them was the newspaper Novorossky vestnik, for which he wrote essays and where he headed the foreign news department.

In 1876, Julius Karlovich published a collection of stories, representing comic situations and melodramatic stories from the life of a provincial town. In 1878-1880, he took part in the newspaper Obzor, which was published in Tiflis (modern Tbilisi, Georgia).

From 1891, Julius Karlovich published the satirical Essays of the Moldavanka in Odessa Vestnik newspaper, and from 1891 to 1892 - a weekly Sunday feuilleton in Odesskiy vodovorot and in Odesskaya zhizn'. In the same period, he became interested in vaudeville and was engaged in translating novels by I. Sherr and X. de Montépin.

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989