Epoch (Russian magazine)

Epocha (Russian Эпоха, " epoch" ) was one of St. Petersburg's monthly magazine, which published Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864-1865 together with his brother Mikhail. The contributions were literary and political. Like Dostoevsky's earlier magazine Vremya Epocha was a mouthpiece of Potschwenniki; the authors conducted lively debates with the authors of the competing magazines Sovremennik and Russkoje Slovo.

History

Dostoevsky founded the magazine in January 1864 as the successor to the banned on May 24, 1863 Vremya. De jure Mikhail was the editor, as Fyodor Dostoevsky because of his criminal record editorially was not allowed to be active. The editors had the address Meshchanskaya 1 7 (now Kasnatscheiskaja ). The first issue was published on 21 March with the first episode of the prose work records from the cellar hole. When Mikhail died suddenly on July 22, 1864 - he was only 43 years old - the magazine came under pressure. Although Epocha had never achieved the commercial success of Vremya and was heavily in debt, Dostoevsky declared himself ready to feed Mikhail's widow and children. Official Publisher, Alexander Porezki. The most important author was Nikolai Strakhov, additional contributions came from DW Awerkijew, WW Krestowski TO Maikov and JP Polonsky. Nikolai Leskov published in the journal his short story The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1865 ), Ivan Turgenev 's story phantoms and Apollon Grigoriev, who died unexpectedly in October 1864, his memoirs.

1865 had Epocha 1300 subscribers. In June 1865, after the second edition this year, Dostoevsky had to stop the show. His story The crocodile, which he had begun to publish in February and he still wrote, remained unfinished.