''Svetoch'' (, ''Guiding Light'') was a

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monthly science and literature

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published in

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in 1860-1862 by the publisher Dmitry Kalinovsky. Alexander Milyukov was its

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. A liberal publication, ''Svetoch'' advocated the ideas of moderate social reforms, supported the 1861 Emancipation Act and positioned itself as an intermediary between the feuding

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and

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in Russia. The translated works of foreign writers constituted the considerable part of its literary section. Among the Russian authors who contributed to ''Svetoch'' regularly, were Pyotr Weinberg,

Apollon Grigoryev Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev ( rus, Аполло́н Алекса́ндрович Григо́рьев, p=ɐpɐˈlon ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪf, a=Apollon Alyeksandrovich Grigor'yev.ru.vorb.oga; 20 July 1822 – 7 Octobe ...

Mikhail Dostoyevsky Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (; 25 November 1820 – 22 July 1864) was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and the elder brother of Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were less than a year apart in age and spent their childhood toget ...

Lev Mei Lev Aleksandrovich Mei or Mey (; ) was a Russian dramatist and poet. Biography Mei was born on 13/25 February 1822, in Moscow. His father was a German officer who was wounded in the Battle of Borodino and died young. His mother was Russian. Mei c ...

Dmitry Minayev Dmitry Dmitriyevich Minayev (, 2 November 1835, — 22 July 1889) was a Russian poet, parodist, journalist, translator and literary critic. Biography Minayev was born in Simbirsk to the poet Dmitry Ivanovich Minayev, best known for his transla ...

Alexey Pleshcheyev Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (; 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poetry, Russian poet of the 19th century, once a member of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's first book of poetry, published in 1846, made him famous: "Step forward! ...

Nikolai Strakhov Nikolay Nikolayevich Strakhov, also transliterated as ''Nikolai Strahov'' (; 16 October 1828 – 24 January 1896) was a Russian philosopher, publicist, journalist and literary criticism, literary critic. He shared the ideals of Pochvennichestvo ...

, Nikolai Shcherbina. The ''Caricature Leaflet'' (Карикатурный листок) came out as a monthly supplement to ''Svetoch''.

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