Viktor Viktorovich Bilibin was a Russian writer and playwright, one of the leading Russian humourists and satirists of the late 19th century, who used the pen name I. Grek. His best-known stories were collected in the books Love and Laughter, Humour and Fantasy and Humorous Patterns. After Nikolai Leykin's death he became the editor-in-chief of Oskolki (1906—1908).