Sovremennik
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Sovremennik (, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out four times a year in 1836–1843 and once a month after that. The magazine published poetry, prose, critical, historical, ethnographic and other material.
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- Magazine.language
- Russian
- Magazine.title
- Sovremennik
- Magazine.image_file
- Sovremennik.jpg
- Magazine.image_size
- 190px
- Magazine.image_caption
- The title page of the issue printed after the death of Alexander Pushkin
- Magazine.firstdate
- 1836
- Magazine.lastdate
- 1866
- Magazine.based
- St. Petersburg
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Sovremennik (, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out four times a year in 1836–1843 and once a month after that. The magazine published poetry, prose, critical, historical, ethnographic and other material.
Sovremennik originated as a private enterprise of Alexander Pushkin who was running out of money to support his growing family. To assist him with the magazine, the poet asked Nikolai Gogol, Pyotr Vyazemsky and Vladimir Odoyevsky to contribute their works to the journal. It was there that the first substantial assortment of Fyodor Tyutchev's poems was published. Soon it became clear that Pushkin's establishment could not compete with Faddey Bulgarin's journal, which published more popular and less demanding literature. Sovremennik was out of date and could not command a paying audience.
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