Wremja (magazine)

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The cover of the first issue of Vremya

Vremja ( Russian Время, "time") was a Saint Petersburg monthly magazine that appeared from 1861 to 1863. The editor was Michail Michailowitsch Dostojewski , the older brother of Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski . Political articles and literary works appeared in the magazine.

history

The background to the establishment of the magazine was Dostoyevsky's wish to be able to publish his own literary work without taking into account third-party publishers. In addition, he wanted to make the Potschwennitschestvo heard, a current within the Slavophile movement for which Dostoyevsky was ardently committed. Due to his political background, Dostoyevsky was not allowed to work as a publisher; when Vremya was founded in early 1861, his brother Mikhail was the official editor.

The editorial office was in Mikhail Dostoyevsky's apartment (Malaya Meshchanskaya, today: 1 Kaznacheyskaya), and the magazine was printed in E. Prats' printing house. In-house authors were Fyodor Dostoyevsky's political comrades-in-arms Nikolai Strachow and Apollon Grigoryev ; further contributions came from Vsevolod Krestowski , Apollon Maikow , Jakow Polonski , Nikolai Nekrasow , Mikhail Saltykow-Shchedrin and Nikolai Gerassimowitsch Pomjalowski . Most of these authors were close to Potschwennitschestvo, so a heated debate arose with the authors of the opposing magazines Sovremennik and Russkoje slowo .

From January to July 1861 Dostoevsky published his novel Humiliated and Insulted in the magazine , from the autumn of 1861 to the end of 1862 the prose work Notes from the House of the Dead , and in 1862 his short story A Stupid Story .

Wremja was very successful with the public and brought Dostoevsky so good income that he could afford an extensive trip through Europe in the summer of 1862. He wrote about it an essay Winter Notes on Summer Impressions , which also appeared in Wremja from February 1863 on .

After the January uprising in Poland, Strachow published the article "A fateful question" on the Russian-Polish relationship in April 1863. The article was classified as critical of the government by the censors. On May 24, 1863, the magazine was banned.

In March 1864, Fyodor and Mikhail Dostoyevsky founded the magazine Epocha , which was supposed to replace Vremja , but which did not come close to achieving the success of its model.

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Individual evidence

  1. Frederick Copleston: Philosophy in Russia . From hearts to Lenin and Berdyaev. Search Press / Notre Dame, Tunbridge Wells, England; Notre Dame, Indiana 1886, ISBN 0-85532-577-1 , pp. 153 .  ; Joseph Frank: Through the Russian Prism . Essays on Literature and Culture. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1990, ISBN 0-691-06821-6 , pp. 176 f . ( limited online version in Google Book Search)
  2. Vremja (journal) in the online encyclopedia Saint Petersburg (English, Russian ), accessed on January 13, 2014
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  4. ^ Victor Terras: The Art of Crime and Punishment . In: Harold Bloom (Ed.): Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment . Chelsea House / Infobase Publishing, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7910-7579-6 , pp. 280 . ( limited online version in Google Book Search); Joseph Frank: Dostoevsky . The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1986, ISBN 0-691-01452-3 , pp. 213 .
  5. Mikhail Bakhtin: Characteristics of Genre and Plot Composition in Dostoevsky's Works . In: Harold Bloom (Ed.): Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment . Chelsea House / Infobase Publishing, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7910-7579-6 , pp. 67 f .
  6. ^ Joseph Frank, Mary Petrusewicz: Dostoevsky . A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 357 .
  7. ^ Fyodor Dostoevsky: Winter Notes on Summer Impressions . 2nd Edition. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois 1997, ISBN 0-8101-1518-2 , pp. vvi . , Introduction ( limited online version in Google Book Search)
  8. ^ Joseph Frank, Mary Petrusewicz: Dostoevsky . A Writer in His Time. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-12819-1 , pp. 361 .
  9. ^ Strachow: On the life story of Dostojewskis . Literary writings. Piper, Munich 1923, p. 58 .