The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine "Southern Literary Messenger", and intended by Poe to be a hoax.
Poe planned to continue the hoax in further installments, but was upstaged by the famous Great Moon Hoax which started in the August 25, 1835 issue of the "New York Sun" daily newspaper.
Poe later wrote that the flippant tone of the story made it easy for educated readers to see through the supposed hoax.
Reveries of a Bachelor
Reveries of a Bachelor or" A Book of the Heart" is a book by American author Donald Grant Mitchell, published in 1850 under the pseudonym Ik Marvel.
In the text, the author theorizes on boyhood, country life style, marriage, travel, and dreaming.
A reverie is an irregular train of thought or abstract musing, and Mitchell writes on four different themes:
The first two reveries were originally published in 1849 in the magazine" Southern Literary Messenger" and in 1850 the four essays were published in book format to great public acclaim.
It was one of poet Emily Dickinson's favorite books.
Kvir
Kvir( Квир, from English" queer") is a Russian gay lifestyle magazine.
It was launched by www.gay.ru which runs the LGBT Center" Together", a non-profit organization.
The magazine is a non-profit project designed to provide Russian society with correct and diverse information on homosexuality, to increase public tolerance of homosexuals, as well as to support and unify the gay community in Russia.
It is also made to raise self- acceptance within the gay community.
The magazine's name( Kvir) stems from the English word" queer".
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Elizabeth Oakes Smith( August 12, 1806 – November 16, 1893) was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women's rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s.
Most well- known at the start of her professional career for her poem" The Sinless Child" which appeared in the" Southern Literary Messenger" in 1842, her reputation today rests on her feminist writings, including" Woman and Her Needs", a series of essays published in the" New York Tribune" between 1850 and 1851 that argued for women's spiritual and intellectual capacities as well as women's equal rights to political and economic opportunities, including rights of franchise and higher education.
Southern Literary Messenger
The Southern Literary Messenger was a periodical published in Richmond, Virginia, from August 1834 to June 1864, and from 1939 to 1945.
Each issue carried a subtitle of" Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts" or some variation thereof and included poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, and historical notes.
It was founded by Thomas Willis White, who served as publisher and occasional editor until his death, in 1843.
White hired Edgar Allan Poe in 1835 as a staff writer and critic.
Others involved with the periodical included Matthew Fontaine Maury and Maury's kinsman Benjamin Blake Minor.
Publication ended in June 1864, in part because of Richmond's involvement in the American Civil War, and was revived from 1939- 1945.
Southern Literary Journal
Southern Literary Journal was established in 1968 by editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman.
It is published by the University of North Carolina Press biannually.
Lives of the Necromancers
Lives of the necromancers or An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who have claimed for themselves or to whom has been imputed by others the exercise of magical powers (1834) was the final book written by English journalist, political philosopher and novelist William Godwin.
The book concerns paranormal legends from western and middle eastern history.
In 1835 it was reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe of the "Southern Literary Messenger".
Southern Literary Journal and Monthly Magazine
Southern Literary Journal and Monthly Magazine was a journal founded in 1835 by Daniel K. Whitaker and published until 1837 by J.S. Burges from Charleston, South Carolina.
Its primary contributor was William Gilmore Simms, whose most notable article is "American Criticism and Critics."
Worldcat records a "The Southern Literary Journal, and Magazine of Arts" published between 1837-1838, also from Charleston.
To Helen
" To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe.
The 15- line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend.
It was first published in the 1831 collection" Poems of Edgar A. Poe."
It was subsequently reprinted in the March 1836 issue of the" Southern Literary Messenger".
The final, revised version appeared in the 1845 collection" The Raven and Other Poems".
Benjamin Blake Minor
Benjamin Blake Minor( October 21, 1818 – August 1, 1905) was an American writer, educator, legal scholar, and fourth President of the University of Missouri, from 1860- 1862.
Today, he is most known as the editor of the" Southern Literary Messenger".
He also compiled the second edition of the reports of the decisions of George Wythe, published in 1852.

Question: Are Kvir and Southern Literary Messenger both from the same country?
Answer: no