''Moskva'' (Москва, Moscow) is a Russian monthly literary magazine founded in 1957 in Moscow. It is published on a monthly basis.

History

''Moskva'' magazine was established in 1957, originally as an organ of the

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

Union of Writers and its Moscow department. Its first editor was Nikolay Atarov (1957–1958), succeeded by Yevgeny Popovkin (1958–1968). It was during his time that

Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...

's '' The Master and Margarita'' was published for the first time (in the December 1966 and January 1967 issues). The magazine's third editor-in-chief Mikhail Alekseyev brought its selling figures to record highs (775,000 in 1989) and made history too by publishing Nikolay Karamzin's ''History of the Russian State'' (1989–1990) for the first time since 1917. In the 1990s and 2000s, under

Vladimir Krupin Vladimir Nikolayevich Krupin (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Крупи́н, September 7, 1941) is a Soviet Russian writer, editor, religious author and tutor. The major proponent of the Village prose movement, noted for his qui ...

(1990–1992) and

Leonid Borodin Leonid Ivanovich Borodin (russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Бороди́н; 14 April 1938, in Irkutsk – 24 November 2011, in Moscow) was a Russian people, Russian novelist and journalist. Biography Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Rus ...

(1992–2008), ''Moskva'', along with ''

Nash Sovremennik ''Nash Sovremennik'' (Наш современник, Our Contemporary) is a Russian literary magazine, founded in 1956, as a successor to the ''Yearly Almanac''. History The predecessor of ''Nash Sovremennik'' was the Maxim Gorky-founded Almanac ...

'' magazine and

Alexander Prokhanov Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Проха́нов; born 26 February 1938) is a Russian writer, a member of the secretariat of the Writers Union of the Russian Federation and the author of more ...

-edited ''Den'' and ''Zavtra'' newspapers, moved into the vanguard of the so-called 'spiritual opposition' movement. In 1993 the subtitle, The Magazine of Russian Culture, was added to its title page. In the 2000s, under Borodin (who in 2009 became the magazine's general director), self-proclaimed 'Russian nationalist' Sergey Sergeyev (2009–2010) and Vladislav Artyomov (2012– ), ''Moskva''s popularity declined, with circulation figures dropping to 3500. Still, it was here that Dmitry Rogozin chose to publish his 2011 novel ''Baron Zholtok''.Baron Zholtok
Moskva magazine, April 2011

References

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