''Beseda'' (russian: link=no, Беседа, Conversation) was a Russian literary and political magazine founded in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, in 1871 by

Alexander Koshelev Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev (russian: Александр Иванович Кошелев; 21 May 1806 – 24 November 1883) was a Russian journalist, publicist, publisher and state official. A staunch Slavophile, Koshelev published numerous ess ...

and edited by

Sergey Yuriev Sergey Andreyevich Yuriev (russian: Сергей Андреевич Юрьев, 25 May 1821, village Voskresenskoye, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire, — 7 January 1889, Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian journalist, editor, publisher, transla ...

. The former's idea was follow the blueprint provided by his previous project, ''

Russkaya Beseda ''Russkaya Beseda'' (russian: Ру′сская бесе′да, en, The Russian Colloquy) was a Russian literary magazine founded in Moscow, Russian Empire, in 1856 by Alexander Koshelev who remained its editor-in-chief until 1858, when Ivan ...

'', but Yuriev from the start started to build up a diverse team of contributors, while still being loyal to the original Panslavic doctrine. Among the authors who regularly contributed to the magazine, were Tertiy Fillipov, Fyodor Bredikhin, Anton Budilovich,

Marin Drinov Marin Stoyanov Drinov ( bg, Марин Стоянов Дринов, russian: Марин Степанович Дринов; 20 October 1838 - 13 March 1906) was a Bulgarian historian and philologist from the National Revival period who lived and w ...

, Mykola Kostomarov,

Aleksandr Gradovsky Aleksandr Gradovsky (1841–1889) was a Russian jurist. A professor of law at St. Petersburg University since 1869, he was a leading theorist of Russian administrative and constitutional law. He was succeeded by Nikolay Korkunov Nikolai Mikhailovi ...

, Sergey Solovyov,

Orest Miller Orest Fyodorovich Miller (russian: Оре́ст Фёдорович Ми́ллер; 4 August 1833 – 1 June 1889) was a Russian folklorist, professor in Russian literature, of Baltic Germans, Baltic German origin from Estonia. He is the author of t ...

, Nikolai Aksakov, Nikolai Solovyov. ''Beseda'' published the novels '' In the Vortex'' by Alexey Pisemsky, ''The Bogatyrs'' by

Nikolai Chayev Nikolai Alexandrovich Chayev (russian: Николай Александрович Чаев; 8 May 1824 – 16 November 1914) was a Russian Literature, Russian writer, poet and playwright.

, and several novellas by

Grigory Potanin Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin (alt. Grigorij Potanin) (russian: Григорий Николаевич Потанин; 4 October 1835 – 6 June 1920) was a Russian ethnographer and natural historian. He was an explorer of Inner Asia, and was the ...

as well as poetry by

Alexey Pleshcheyev Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Никола́евич Плеще́ев; 8 October 1893) was a radical Russian poetry, Russian poet of the 19th century, once a member of the Petrashevsky Circle. Pleshcheyev's ...

Fyodor Miller Fyodor Bogdanovich Miller (russian: Фёдор Богданович Миллер, 3 February 1818 — 1 February 1881) was a Russian literature, Russian poet, novelist and translator. Fyodor Miller was born in Moscow, to a family of ethnic German ...

Yakov Polonsky Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (russian: Яков Петрович Полонский; ) was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Of noble birth, Polonsky ...

and A.K. Tolstoy, among others. During the second year of its existence, the magazine started to have troubles with censorship. Its September 1872 issue was destroyed and later re-issued with the offending items extracted. Later that year Koshelev declared that he was stopping the publication temporarily, but never restarted it.Беседа
// Russian Periodicals dictionary. // Русская периодическая печать Гос. изд-во полит. лит., 1959. — С. 535.

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