A History of Russian-Language Fanfiction/Sherlock Holmes

This timeline was originally compiled in 2005 for A History of Russian-Language Fanfiction by Daria Oblomskaya, with the editorial assistance of A.F. Busek. Original post is here.

Fans are encouraged to add to this timeline.

1990

The first of two volumes compiled by the Ural Holmes Society are printed and published in Ekaterinburg. The books contain a mixture of academic essays, Russian-language (original and in translation) Holmes-based fiction (most of which had already been published in magazines etc.), parodies and pastiches, and finally the mock analysis of Holmes based on each and every (fan)fiction ever written about him. (So that they end up with Holmes speaking hundreds of languages, living up till the 23rd century and being married and never married at the same time – all in a gorgeously dry academic style, with footnotes etc.)

1991

Penza Holmsian Society is founded. Their site is on http://sherlockholmes.pnz.ru/

1992

The second volume of the Ural Holmes Society anthology is published in Ekaterinburg

1995-2005

Internet Holmsians are mostly concerned with canon and its interpretations, but recently fanfiction also got their second wind, slash-fics in particular

http://baker-street.narod.ru/html/index.html has canon-related information, and contains a fanfiction novel by N. Chernetskaya

2002

Almanach Sherlock Holmes is launched by Anton Lapudev. It publishes essays and other materials on Holmes, as well as short fanfiction translated from English. This can be regarded as the only Russian fanzine; there have been 4 issues so far. Anton's site is http://conan-doyle.narod.ru/

2005

January: First slash-fics are written for the Secret Santa Challenge: Mara iz Koshmara's "Zima, vesna, leto i osen'" –"Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall"; Jewel's "Vspomnit' vse" – "Total Recall"; Sherlock Sebastian's "Koshki-Myshki" –"Cats'n'Mice"