''Istorichesky Vestnik'' (, History Herald) was a

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monthly historical and literary magazine published in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

from 1880 to 1917,Исторический вестник
at the

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in the Russian Em ...

and relaunched in 2012.

History

The magazine was founded by the journalist and scholar

Sergey Shubinsky Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky (; 1834–1913) was a historian and journalist who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of Imperial Russia.Глинский Б. Б. Сергей Николаевич Шубинский. (1834— ...

and

Alexey Suvorin Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin (; , Korshevo, Voronezh Governorate – , Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian newspaper and book publisher and journalist whose publishing empire wielded considerable influence during the last decades of the Russian Emp ...

(as publisher) with a view to "providing the reader, in the most lively and accessible form possible, with the full account of what happens in the historical science and literature both in Russia and in Europe." Part of the Russian history journals' 'triumvirate', alongside '' Russky Arkhiv'' and ''

Russkaya Starina ''Russkaia Starina'' (, , ) was a Russian history journal published monthly in St. Petersburg by amateur historian Mikhail Semevsky and his successors between 1870 and 1916. Its authors included Ivan Zabelin, Dmitry Ilovaysky, Nikolai Karlovi ...

'', it differed from the other two in making accessibility and fine literary style its main priorities. Among the prominent contributors to ''Istorichesky Vestnik'' were Russia's leading historians of the time

Mykola Kostomarov Mykola Ivanovych Kostomarov (; May 16, 1817 – April 19, 1885) or Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov () was one of the most distinguished Russian–Ukrainian historians, one of the first anti-Normanists, and the father of modern Ukrainian historiog ...

Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin Konstantin Nikolayevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (; – ) was a Russian historian. He was the head of the School of Historiography at the University of St. Petersburg (1864–85) and was elected into the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1890. In 1 ...

, Egor Zamyslovsky,

Alexander Brückner Alexander Brückner (5 August 1834, Saint Petersburg – 15 November 1896, Jena) was a Baltic German historian who specialized in Russian studies. He was the father of geographer Eduard Brückner. He studied history and economics at the uni ...

Ivan Zabelin Ivan Yegorovich Zabelin (Иван Егорович Забелин; 29 September 1820 – 13 January 1909) was a Russian historian and archaeologist with a Slavophile bent who helped establish the National History Museum on Red Square and presid ...

, Alexey Korsakov, Leonid Maykov and

Rafail Zotov Rafail Mikhaylovich Zotov (, 1795, — September 29, 1871) was a Russian playwright, novelist, journalist, translator and theatre critic. The playwright Vladimir Zotov was his son. Born in Pskov, Zotov started his literary career in 1814. He has ...

.Исторический вестник
at the Soviet Historical Encyclopedia // Советская историческая энциклопедия. — М.: Советская энциклопедия . Под ред. Е. М. Жукова. 1973—1982. The historical belletrists Evgeny Salias De Tournemire,

Daniil Mordovtsev Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev (; December 19, 1830 in Danilovka, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire – June 23, 1905 in Kislovodsk, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer and historian. Biography Mordovtsev was born in Danilovka, Volgograd Oblast, Russi ...

Grigory Danilevsky Grigory Petrovich Danilevsky (; – ) was a Russian historical novelist, and Privy Councillor of Russia. Danilevsky is well known as the author of the novel ''Beglye v Novorossii'' (''Fugitives in New Russia'', 1862). Life Born into the fam ...

Vsevolod Solovyov Vsevolod Sergeyevich Solovyov (; – ) was a Russian historical novelist. His most famous work is ''Chronicle of Four Generations'' (five volumes, 1881–86), an account of the fictional Gorbatov family from the time of Catherine the Great to ...

Evgeny Karnovich Evgeny Petrovich Karnovich (; 15 November 1823 – 6 November 1885) was Russian writer, historian, journalist and editor. Biography Born in rural Yaroslavl region into an affluent Ukrainian noble Karnovich family, Evgeny started his literary ca ...

Pyotr Polevoy Pyotr Nikolayevich Polevoy (, 9 March 1839, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 12 February 1902, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian writer, playwright, translator, critic, editor and literary historian. The prominent journalist and ...

Viktor Burenin Viktor Petrovich Burenin (, March 6 ld Style and New Style dates, O.S. February 22 1841 – August 15, 1926) was a Russian literature, Russian Literary criticism, literary and theatre critic, publicist, novelist, dramatist, translator and ...

, Nadezhda Merder (N. Severin), Rostislav Sementkovsky, as well as authors like Sergey Terpigorev,

Pyotr Gnedich Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich ( rus, Пётр Петро́вич Гне́дич, p=ˈpʲɵtr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ, a=Pyotr Pyetrovich Gnyedich.ru.vorb.oga; – July 16, 1925), also known as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, ...

and Ieronim Yasinsky were regular contributors to ''Istorichesky vestnik''. Several stories and sketches by

Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held ...

which later came to be considered part of the Russian classics, also first appeared in this magazine. ''Istorichesky Vestnik'' had unusually large obituary section, each entry amounting to a comprehensive survey of the deceased author's legacy. Using its position, the magazine managed even to publish Anatoly Faresov's obituary to

Nikolai Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky ( – ) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism and the N ...

, the first time such tribute could be made to an author whose work had been officially banned and whose name was forbidden to be mentioned in the press at the time. It had also extensive sections on the

history of literature The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeolo ...

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

and

ethnography Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

. Several important memoirs and diaries, by authors like Viktor Askochensky,

Ksenofont Polevoy Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy (; 1 August 1801, Irkutsk, Imperial Russia – 21 April 1867, Tyukhmenevo, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist, publisher and translator. He was the younger brothe ...

, Avdotya Panayeva,

Vladimir Sollogub Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub (; ; 20 August 1813 – 17 June 1882) was a minor Russian writer, author of novelettes, essays, plays, and memoirs. Born in Saint Petersburg, his paternal grandfather was a Polish aristocrat, and he grew up i ...

, Nikolai Ignatyev and Ilya Arsenyev, were published in ''Istorichesky Vestnik''. Boris Glinsky succeeded Shubinsky as editor-in-chief in 1913, the year when the magazine's popularity reached its peak, with the circulation of 13 thousand. In all, 147 volumes came out, each comprising three monthly issues.

Since 2012

In 2012 the magazine was re-launched in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

, under the editorship of Anton Gorsky. Its first volume came out as "Issue No. 148"; by 2014, nine more, Nos. 149-157, had followed.Исторический вестник
Том первый 48 Начало русской государственности

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