Primary sourceNewspaper article1861
Vremya
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Mikhail Dostoyevsky · 1861
A monthly literary-political magazine Dostoyevsky ran with his brother Mikhail, which first published The House of the Dead.
Dostoyevsky wrote for and effectively edited this journal, which carried his ideas and serialized his own fiction.
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What it is
Vremya ("Time") was a monthly magazine that began publication in March 1861. Fyodor Dostoyevsky could not be its official editor because of his status as a former convict, so his brother Mikhail Dostoyevsky was listed as editor instead.
Why it matters
The magazine promoted Dostoyevsky's "native-soil" ideas and serialized his novel The House of the Dead, which brought it popularity and money. It also gave Russian readers their first translations of Edgar Allan Poe stories, with a preface by Dostoyevsky. The government banned the magazine in 1863 over an article on Polish affairs.
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- Why might Dostoyevsky have needed his brother to be the official editor?
- What does publishing foreign writers like Poe alongside Russian fiction tell you about the magazine's aims?
- Why would a government ban a literary magazine over a political article?
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