''Russkaya Rech'' (russian: Русская речь, Russian Speech) was a Russian

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literary and political magazine which was launched in Moscow on 1 January 1861 by the writer and journalist Evgenya Tur who went on to become also its editor. Defined originally as "the review of literature, art and history in Russia and in the West," on 14 May of that year it joined forces with the ''Moscow Herald'' (Московский вестник) and, under the new title, ''Russkaya Rech and Moskovsky Vestnik'', changed profile, becoming a political, moderately liberal publication. Starting with the No.39 issue, the journalist and publicist

Evgeny Feoktistov Evgeny Mikhaylovich Feoktistov (russian: link=no, Евгений Михайлович Феоктистов; 1828 – 28 June 1898) was a Kaluga-born Russian journalist, editor, historian and, later in his life, state official. A Moscow Univer ...

became the magazine's editor-in-chief, as well as the head of its current politics section. Other key figures of the magazine's staff were Fyodor Buslayev (foreign literature and history) and Nikolai Tikhonravov (Russian literature and history), with Evgenya Tur running the literary criticism section, where she published her essays on Mikhail Avdeyev,

Vsevolod Krestovsky Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky (russian: Все́волод Влади́мирович Кресто́вский; February 23, 1840 – January 30, 1895) was a Russian writer who worked in the city mysteries genre. Biography Krestovsky came ...

Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya Nadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya (russian: Надежда Дмитриевна Хвощинская; May 20, 1821Stroganova, E. N. “K 200-letiiu Nadezhdy Dmitrievny Khvoshchinskoi: O date rozhdeniia pisatel’nitsy.” ''Kul’tura i tekst'' ...

and

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...

. Among the authors who contributed to the magazine regularly were

Alexander Afanasyev Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Afanasief, Afanasiev or Afanas'ev, russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) ( — ) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk ta ...

, Genrikh Vyzinsky, Apollon Golovachyov, Pavel Zabelin, Dmitry Kachenovsky, Nadezhda Kokhanovskaya, Alexander Levitov,

Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; – ) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique w ...

, Nil Popov, Mikhail De Pulet,

Mikhail Semevsky Mikhail Ivanovich Semevsky (Russian: Михаил Иванович Семевский; 1837–92) was a Russian Imperial amateur historian who focused on the era of palace revolutions and the history of the 18th-century Russia. Of noble birth, S ...

Vasily Sleptsov Vasily Alekseyevich Sleptsov (russian: Васи́лий Алексе́евич Слепцо́в, July 31, 1836 – April 4, 1878), was a Russian writer, playwright, journalist and social reformer. Biography Sleptsov was born in Voronezh into a nob ...

, Sergey Solovyov and

Alexey Suvorin Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin (Russian: Алексей Сергеевич Суворин, 11 September 1834, Korshevo, Voronezh Governorate – 11 August 1912, Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian newspaper and book publisher and journalist whose publ ...

(using the pseudonym Vasily Markov). The magazine's final issue came out on 4 January 1862, its closure being the result of Tur's leaving Russia for France.

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