Biblioteka dlja chtenija

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Title page from 1834

Biblioteka dlja tschtenija ( Russian Библиотека для чтения , reading library) was a magazine for literature , science , art , criticism , current events and illustrated the latest fashion , which was published monthly in Saint Petersburg from 1834 to April 1865 in Russian. The reading library in Russia was considered to be the first of those bulky journals, well known today, in which all kinds of news are chatted.

The publisher Alexander Filippowitsch Smirdin paid his editor-in-chief, the Polish orientalist Ossip Senkowski at the University of St. Petersburg , the then unusually high annual salary of 15,000 rubles. Smirdin introduced fixed fees, graduated according to the author's reputation . The journal appeared on the first day of each month. The subscriber paid 50 rubles a year. In the first few years, when Pushkin was still writing for the reading library , the number of subscribers leveled off at 7,000 and then fell to around 3,000 in 1847. Smiridin went bankrupt and had to sell the paper.

Other editors-in-chief over the decades were the literary critic Alexander Wassiljewitsch Druzhinin and the writers Alexei Pissemsky and Pyotr Boborykin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Смирдин, Александр Филиппович
  2. ↑ Russian Дружинин, Александр Васильевич