Moskvityanin

The Moskwitjanin (Russian Москвитянин, dt about " The Moscow " ) was a Russian scientific and literary magazine, published in Moscow in the years 1841-1856 by Mikhail Pogodin.

History

Until 1849, she appeared monthly, then twice per month. Pogodin employees were among other SP Schewyrew, II Davydov, Fyodor Glinka and Vladimir Dal. In the vulgar - sociological Soviet literature, the journal was the organ of the great economic bourgeoisie of the 1840s and 1850s and took the position of the official Volkstumsideologie.

In the first issue of the journal Schweyrew developed the famous formula in an article, the era of Nicholas I characterize " orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality ". This fully agreed with the patriotic mood of the economic bourgeoisie who are not even thought of sharp criticism of the serf state. Likewise lawfully entered the Moskwitjanin against the German philosophy, which dominated the minds both of the nobility as well as the nascent democratic intelligence.

In the short period of editorship of Ivan Kirejewski (January to March 1845), an attempt was made ​​to remove Pogodin and Schwyrew from the line of the journal and to orient their new alignment. Between the group of Moskowitjanin and the Moscow Slavophiles with Alexei Khomyakov at the top, there were no fundamental differences in the view of the West and Russia, although the latter also practiced criticism of the magazine. But in contrast to the Slavophile landlords that line the patriarchal, his master devoted oriented farmers, the Moskowitjanin put his focus on economic bourgeoisie.

In the magazine works by Aleksandr Weltman, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Fyodor Glinka, Nikolai Gogol were printed ( scenes from the auditor and Rome), Vladimir Dal, Vasily Zhukovsky, Mikhail Zagoskin, Karolina Pavlova, Nikolai Jasikow and Dmitry Oznobischin, also the works of famous scientists Ismail Sreznewskij, Hyacinth Bichurin, Alexander Hilferding, Ivan Zabelin, Fyodor Buslaew, Ivan Snegiryov.

The orientation Pogodin was deepened and continued, which Pogodin the magazine in 1850 and handed the belonged, among others, Alexander Ostrowski, Yevgeny Filippov Edelson and Tertij by the members of the "young editors " of the Moskowitjanin. One of the most visible members of this group, Apollon Grigoryev, told the Slavophiles:

" Convinced as you, that the pledge of the future of Russia is preserved only in the classes of Russia, have kept the faith, customs and language of the fathers, in classes, untouched by the Falsehood of civilization, we accept as such not only the peasantry: in the middle class, among entrepreneurs, in the mercantile community, we see mainly the ancient Rus. "

At the same time it was not so, that the " young editors " had not introduced any new tendencies in the magazine. It succeeded, for example, to free up a significant extent from the official Volkstumsideologie that Pogodin completely dominated. At the same time remained the basic tendencies of the magazine, especially the negative attitude to the Westerners, unchanged. In the magazine the works of Ivan Gorbunov, Dmitry Grigorovich, Pawel Melniko, Ostrovsky, Alexei Pisemskij, Fyodor Tjuttschew, Yakov Polonsky, Afanassi Fet, Nikolai Shcherbina and Lev Mei were printed, as well as translations of Dante, Goethe, George Sand and Walter Scott.

The fiasco of the Crimean War that the decomposition of the feudal regime and revealed the class antagonisms deepened, made the further idealization of patriarchy impossible. The extremely weak at this time read Moskwitjanin 1856 closed. But at the beginning of the 1860s Apollon Grigoriev, Alexei Pisemskij, Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Yevgeny Edelson and other members of its editorial staff united to the underground magazines of the brothers Mikhail and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vremya and Epocha, and thus led the Slavophile ideas ( in more liberal form) organic further.

• Antiquarian Magazine (Russia)
• Scientific Journal
• First publication in 1841
• Literary magazine
• Posted in 1856