''Russky Arkhiv'' (russian: Русский архив/Русскій Архивъ, Russian Archives) was a Russian historical and literary

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(in 1880–1884, a

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) magazine, published in

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in 1863–1917. Conceived originally by Alexey Khomyakov, it was launched and edited by

Pyotr Bartenev Pyotr Ivanovich Bartenev (Пётр Ива́нович Барте́нев; 13 October 1829 – 4 November 1912) was a Russian historian and collector of unpublished memoirs. Of noble birth, Bartenev attended the Moscow University. In 1856, he under ...

, with a view to giving its readership the full and objective account of Russian history. In the course of its history the magazine published a host of important historical documents, including the previously unreleased archive materials, concerning correspondences, biographies, diaries, travel notes or memoirs of renowned historical figures, focusing on the history of Russian nobility of the 18th and the early 19th centuries. Almost topical for ''Russian Archive'' became the documentary analysis of the life and the work of

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

.Русский Архив
at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary Among the historians, essayists and critics who contributed to ''Russky Arkhiv'' regularly were

Yakov Grot Yakov Karlovich Grot (russian: link=no, Я́ков Ка́рлович Грот) ( – ) was a nineteenth-century Russian philologist of German extraction who worked at the University of Helsinki. Grot was a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Ly ...

Mikhail Yuzefovich Mikhail Vladimirovich Yuzefovich (russian: Михаил Владимирович Юзефович) (29 June 1802 – 2 June 1889) was the deputy commissioner of the Kiev school district, chairman of the Kiev archaeological commission, and instigato ...

Alexander Vasilchikov Alexander Semyonovich Vasilchikov (russian: Александр Семёнович Васильчиков, tr. ; 1746–1813) was a Russian aristocrat who became the lover of Catherine the Great from 1772 to 1774. Vasilchikov was an ensign in the ...

Dmitry Ilovaysky Dmitry Ivanovich Ilovaysky (; February 11/23, 1832, Ranenburg - February 15, 1920) was an anti-Normanist conservative Russian historian who penned a number of standard history textbooks. Ilovaysky graduated from the Moscow University in 1854 and ...

, Mikhail Longinov,

Leonid Maykov Leonid Nikolaevich Maikov (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Майков; 1839–1900) was a prominent researcher in the history of Russian literature, a full member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, president of the Russian B ...

, Sergey Sobolevsky, Nikolai Barsukov. Among its most valued publications were letters and diaries by numerous

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, the notes of Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz (1713–1725), as well as Just Juel, the

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ambassador at the Court of

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

, the diaries of Pyotr Tolstoy on his 1697–1699 foreign trip,

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's notes on Peter I's reforms, as well as the assorted diaries, memoirs and notes by Mikhail Antonovsky, Count

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, Nikolai Ilyinsky, Countess Edling, Count de Rochechouart, Hippolyte Auger,

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, Count Mikhail Tolstoy, the poet

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, Countess

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, general Grigory Filipson, the

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Governor

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, Baron Alexander von Nicolai,

Nikolai Berg Nikolai Vasilyevich Berg (russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Берг, , Moscow, Russian Empire, - , Warsaw, Poland) was a Russian poet, journalist, translator and historian. Biography Nikolai Berg was born in Moscow. His father came ...

(on the Polish

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), Prince

Pyotr Vyazemsky Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky ( rus, Пëтр Андре́евич Вя́земский, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈvʲæzʲɪmskʲɪj; 23 July 1792 – 22 November 1878) was a Russian Imperial poet, a leading personality of t ...

(his Ostafyev Archives). The extensive memoirs by general

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and playwright

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came out separately, as supplements. ''Russky Arkhiv'' was a respectable but not massively popular publication; its circulation figures fluctuated around one thousand and never reached beyond 1300.Русский Архив
at the Soviet History Encyclopedia // Советская историческая энциклопедия

References

External links

«Российский архив»
online

Assorted issues of ''Russky Arkiv'' (in PDFs) {{Authority control 1863 establishments in the Russian Empire 1917 disestablishments in Russia Defunct literary magazines published in Europe Defunct magazines published in Russia Biweekly magazines Magazines established in 1863 Magazines disestablished in 1917 Magazines published in Moscow Russian-language magazines Literary magazines published in Russia Monthly magazines published in Russia