Sovremennik (contemporary Russian periodical context)

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Sovremennik was a prominent 19th-century Russian literary journal known for publishing major works by leading writers of the time and for its influential role in the country’s intellectual and cultural life.

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instanceOf Russian periodical
literary journal
censorshipStatus heavily censored
country Russian Empire
dissolved 1866
editor Alexander Pushkin
Ivan Panaev
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Dobrolyubov
linked to: Vissarion Belinsky

Nikolai Nekrasov
era 19th century
focus contemporary Russian literature
social and political issues
foundedBy Alexander Pushkin
genre fiction
literary criticism
poetry
social commentary
inception 1836
influenced Russian intelligentsia
Russian literary realism
language Russian
locationOfPublication Saint Petersburg
linked to: St. Petersburg
notableContributor Alexander Pushkin
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Turgenev
Leo Tolstoy
Mikhail Lermontov
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Dobrolyubov
linked to: Vissarion Belinsky

Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Nekrasov
originalPublisher Alexander Pushkin
ownedBy Nikolai Nekrasov
politicalAlignment radical democratic
socially progressive
publicationFrequency monthly
publishedWork Fathers and Sons
Notes from Underground
What Is to Be Done?
publishedWorkAuthor Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ivan Turgenev
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
reasonForClosure political repression
significance central organ of Russian literary life in the 1850s–1860s
major platform for Russian radical thought
titleMeaning The Contemporary

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