Sovremennik

Sovremennik (Russian Современник, literally: The contemporary ) was a company founded by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Russian literary, social and political magazine that was published from 1836 to 1866 in Saint Petersburg. After the death of Pushkin it was first carried on by his friend and publisher Pletnev, became important only gradually over Nikolai Alexeyevich Nekrasov takeover and Panayev in the year 1846. 1866 the magazine was banned in the wake of government measures after Karakosowattentat.

From 1836-1843, there were four issues per year, after the magazine was published monthly. In content it gathered, among other poetry, prose, historical, ethnographic and socio-critical texts, including translations of Russian works out.

Among the authors were Dostoyevsky, Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Ivan Ivanovich Panayev, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Platonovich Ogarev.