Sovremennik

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Sovremennik ( Russian Современник , literally: The contemporary) was a Russian literary, social and political magazine founded by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , which was published from 1836 to 1866 in Saint Petersburg . After Pushkin's death, it was initially continued by his friend and publisher Pletnew, but only gained importance when it was taken over by Nikolai Alexejewitsch Nekrasow and Panayev in 1846. In 1866, the magazine was banned in the course of government measures after Karakosov's failed assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II .

From 1836 to 1843 there were four issues a year, after which the magazine appeared monthly. In terms of content, it brought together poetry, prose, historical, ethnographic and socially critical texts, including translations of works from outside Russia.

Among the authors were Dostoyevsky , Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Grigorowitsch , Iwan Turgenew , Iwan Iwanowitsch Panajew , Iwan Goncharov , Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Platonowitsch Ogarjow .

Individual evidence

  1. On January 10, 1836, Pushkin received permission to publish his own literary magazine, see Rolf-Dietrich Keil: Pushkin . A poet's life, biography. Insel, Frankfurt 1999, p. 403 .
  2. Friedr. Hitzler (Ed.): FM Dostojewski . Collected Letters 1833–1881. Piper, Munich 1966, p. 716 .
  3. see letter # 56 of November 16, 1945 to his brother Michail about the publication of the "Novel in nine letters" David Lowe and Ronald Meyer (eds.): Fyodor Dostoevsky Complete Letters . Vol. 1 1832-1859. Ardis, Ann Arbor 1988, ISBN 0-88233-898-6 . but with the wrong footnote 12, correct in Friedr. Hitzler (Ed.): FM Dostojewski . Collected Letters 1833–1881. Piper, Munich 1966.