Otechestvennye Zapiski (Russian: Отечественные записки , IPA: [ɐˈtʲetɕɪstvʲɪnːɨjɪ zɐˈpʲiskʲɪ] , variously translated as "Annals of the Fatherland", "Patriotic Notes", "Notes of the Fatherland", etc.) was a Russian literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg on a monthly basis between 1818 and 1884. The journal served liberal-minded readers known as the intelligentsia . Such major novels as Ivan Goncharov 's Oblomov (1859), Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's The Double (1846) and The Adolescent (1875) and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin 's The Golovlyov Family (1880) made their first appearance in Otechestvennye Zapiski .
8-490: Founded by Pavel Svinyin in 1818, the journal was published irregularly until 1820. It was closed down in 1830 but resurfaced several years later, with Andrey Krayevsky as its publisher. The renovated magazine regularly published articles by Vissarion Belinsky and Alexander Herzen , catering to well-educated liberals. Other notable contributors included: In 1846 Nekrasov persuaded Belinsky and other contributors to leave Otechestvennye Zapiski for his own Sovremennik . As
16-401: A result, the former declined in circulation and influence. It was overshadowed by the more radical Sovremennik for 20 years, until the latter was banned in 1866. In 1868 Nekrasov acquired Otechestvennye Zapiski from Krayevsky and started editing it jointly with Saltykov-Shchedrin. After Nekrasov's death Saltykov-Schedrin was its sole editor-in-chief, radicalizing the journal even further. In
24-612: The 1870s it was transformed into a mouthpiece of the Narodnik movement. Despite Saltykov's mastery of " Aesopian " language, the tsarist authorities closed Otechestvennye zapiski in 1884 as "an organ of the press which not only opens its pages to the spread of dangerous ideas, but even has as its closest collaborators people who belong to secret societies". Pavel Svinyin Pavel Petrovich Svinyin or Svinin ( Russian : Па́вел Петро́вич Свиньи́н; 19 June 1787 – 21 April 1839)
32-488: The careers of talented peasants. In 1830 he left the capital and settled at his country estate near Galich . Svinin authored several historical novels and plays, a guide to St. Petersburg and its suburbs (in 5 volumes, 1816–28) and a catalogue of the Kremlin Armoury (1826). His personal collection, known as the "Russian Museum", featured a number of valuable paintings, statues, manuscripts, antiques, coins, and gems. It
40-507: The time (such as smoking in the presence of ladies, smoking indoors, a man taking off his tailcoat in the presence of ladies—leaving him wearing only his waistcoat and shirt on top—and holding onto one's horsewhip while dancing). Only one of the women has bothered to take off her bonnet. One of the dancing men isn't wearing socks/stockings. At left, a couple is indulging in what could be considered an inappropriate public display of affection by some European standards of etiquette , while at right
48-519: Was a prolific Russian writer, painter, and editor known as a "Russian Munchausen " for many exaggerated accounts of his travels. He was Appolon Maykov 's brother-in-law and Aleksey Pisemsky 's father-in-law. Svinyin, an inveterate Anglophile , accompanied Dmitry Senyavin in the second Archipelago expedition of 1806 and was employed at the Russian consulate in Philadelphia between 1811 and 1813. He
56-641: Was an aide-de-camp to General Moreau and was present when he died. His first book, Sketches of Moscow and St. Petersburg (1813), made its first appearance in Pennsylvania in English. He left one of the first written depictions of black church music in the United States and launched the publication of the literary magazine Otechestvennye Zapiski in 1818. Svinyin was on friendly terms with many leading Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol , and promoted
64-662: Was auctioned off in 1834. As secretary to the Russian diplomatic representative in the early 1810s, he painted a number of watercolors of life in America. Later he published the book Voyage Pittoresque Aux Etats-Unis de l'Amérique par Paul Svignine en 1811, 1812, et 1813 . "Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn" , depicts travelers grabbing a hurried and impromptu dance on the road in early 1810s America (in rural Pennsylvania), and shows practices which would have been considered inelegant or shockingly informal in many socially genteel circles in Europe at
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