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The magazine was conceived by a Warsaw-born entrepreneur, Boleslaw Wolf, who defined "Vokrug Sveta" as a lavishly illustrated yearly publication, dedicated to "physical geography, natural sciences, the most recent discoveries, inventions and observations". Its roster of authors included: Alfred Brehm, Camille Flammarion, Nikolai Przhevalsky and Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai.