''Byloye'' ( rus, Былое, ''The Past'') was a monthly historical magazine published in the

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by Nikolay Elpidiforovich Paramonov and edited by Vasily Y. Bogucharsky (1861–1915), Pavel E. Shchegolev (1877–1931) and Vladimir L. Burtsev (1862–1942). Published during 1900–1907, 1908–1912 and 1917–1926, its focus was the history of the

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in Russia, from the 18th century to the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907.

History

Between 1900 and 1904, Vladimir Burtsev published 6 issues abroad, in

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and

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. Its contents were on the 1860-1880s movements, especially about

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(''People's Will''), a

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organisation, whose views and tactics were idealised by the magazine. Some of the materials published were old illegal literature, but also unreleased memoirs. In the late autumn of 1905, Burtsev returned to Russia from exile and asked permission to the authorities to publish ''Byloye'', which he was immediately denied. He convinced Bogucharsky and Shchegolev to become editors of the magazine, and got Nikolay Elpidiforovich Paramonov (1876–1951), owner of the Donskaya Rech publishing house, to publish the magazine.{{cite magazine , last=Moiseyevich Lurye , first=Feliks , date=April 2013 , title=Khraniteli proshlogo , script-title=ru:Хранители прошлого , trans-title=Guardians of the past , url=http://magazines.russ.ru/neva/2013/4/l9-pr.html , language=ru , magazine=

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, location=Russia , access-date=2018-03-07 On January 28, 1906, ''Byloye'' was reprinted in

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, Russia, following

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approval, with a monthly edition under the subheading ''Журналъ пocвященный иcтopiи ocвoбoдитeльнaгo движeнiя'' (''Journal dedicated to the history of the revolutionary movement''). In October 1907, by decree of the St. Petersburg gradonachalnik, publication of ''Byloye'' was suspended. In March 1909, by decision of the St. Petersburg Trial Chamber, Shchegolev was sentenced to three years of solitary confinement "for distributing works with the deliberate intention of provoking rebellion". Bogucharsky was deported abroad, and Burtsev, who had experience in being repeatedly expelled, left Russia in good time. ''Byloye'' resumed publication in 1917 and continued until 1926, published and edited by Shchegolev.

References

External links

Issues of ''Byloye''
(in Russian) at the

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, link list by issues. History magazines Magazines established in 1900 Magazines disestablished in 1926 Monthly magazines published in Russia Russian-language magazines