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The Contemporary (Sovremennik)
The Contemporary
also: Современник
The leading Russian literary-political journal of the mid-nineteenth century, founded by Pushkin and later edited by Nekrasov; a stray 1859 issue is the one thing that finally holds Shmakhin's attention.
Reading notes
- Hopeless (A Sketch) §100 "The Contemporary" from 1859
Sovremennik ("The Contemporary"), the leading Russian literary-political journal of the mid-nineteenth century, founded by Pushkin and later edited by Nekrasov; a stray 1859 issue moldering on Shmakhin's shelf, a quarter-century out of date, signals just how long his little library has gone untouched.