Grahdanin
Graschdanin ( Russian Гражданин, "The Citizen", "The Citizen") was a St. Petersburg newspaper that appeared from 1872-1879, 1882-1888 and 1895-1914 three times a week, and 1888-1895 daily. The conservative paper, which defended the monarchy and the church, made mainly political and literary contributions.
history
The founder and first editor of Grahdanin was the writer Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky , a friend of Pyotr Tchaikovsky . From 1873 the editorial office was at 77 Nevsky Prospect .
After disagreements with Meshchersky, GK Gradowski, who was editor at the time and was relatively liberal, resigned from his position and left it to Fyodor Dostoyevsky in early 1873 . This published the first episodes of his soon very popular diary of a writer in Graschdanin . However, the work caused Dostoevsky trouble on various occasions. For example, after he published an article quoting the tsar (which was not allowed at the time), he was imprisoned for two days. In April 1874, he resigned from the editor to write the novel Der Jüngling . Later Dostoyevsky also published his prose work The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) in the Graschdanin .
Other contributors to the Graschdanin included Konstantin Pobedonoszew , Nikolai Strachow , Alexei Pissemski , Nikolai Leskow , Apollon Maikow , Jakow Polonski and Alexei Apuchtin .
After Meshchersky's death, the publication was discontinued.
literature
- Kenneth A. Lantz: The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0-313-30384-3 , pp. 64 f . (English). ( limited online version in Google Book Search)