Grazhdanin

Graschdanin (Russian Гражданин, "The Citizen ," "The Citizen ") was a St. Petersburg newspaper, which appeared from 1872 to 1879, from 1882 to 1888 and from 1895 to 1914 three times a week, and from 1888 to 1895 daily. The Conservative Journal, defended the monarchy and the Church, brought mainly political and literary contributions.

History

Founder and first editor of the Graschdanin was the writer Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshcherskiy, a friend of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The editorial staff from 1873 to the address Nevsky Prospekt 77.

After disagreements with Meshcherskiy put GK Gradovsky who was editor at the time and was relatively liberal, its function down and left it early in 1873, Fyodor Dostoevsky. This published in Graschdanin the first consequences of his soon very popular Diary of a Writer. However, the work brought a Dostoevsky a variety or anger. So he had after he published an article in which the Tsar was quoted (which at that time was not allowed), spend two days in custody. In April 1874, he resigned the editorship to write the novel the young man. Later, Dostoevsky published in Graschdanin his prose work Dream of a Ridiculous People (1877 ).

Other contributors included the Graschdanin Konstantin Pobedonoszew, Nikolai Strakhov, Alexei Pissemski, Nikolai Leskov, Apollon Maikov, Yakov Polonsky and Alexei Apukhtin.

After Meschtscherskis death the show was set.