Epoch (Russian magazine)
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Epoch was a Russian literary magazine published in 1864-65 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his brother Mikhail
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground took up the first four issues of the magazine. His story The Crocodile
was published in the last issue. The Crocodile, taken as an attack on Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and his article Mr -bov and the Question of Art, criticising the views of Nikolay Dobrolyubov created considerable controversy between Dostoyevsky and Russian liberals.
After Mikhail Dostoyevsky's death in 1864, Fyodor became chief editor. He was forced to discontinue publication of the magazine in February of 1865 due to financial problems.
Along with Dostoyevsky's works, Epoch published articles by Apollon Grigoryev
and Nikolay Strakhov
, stories by major writers such as Ivan Turgenev
and Nikolai Leskov
, and the popular fiction of Vsevolod Krestovsky
and others.
Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky , , was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and an elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The two of them were only a year apart in age and spent childhood and youth together...
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Publication history
The first two combined numbers of Epoch, for January and February, 1864, were published in March,1864, containing the opening chapters of Notes from UndergroundNotes from Underground
Notes from Underground is an 1864 short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel...
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground took up the first four issues of the magazine. His story The Crocodile
The Crocodile (short story)
"The Crocodile" is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in 1865 in his magazine Epoch.-Synopsis:The story opens with the narrator telling the purportedly true events that happened to his friend Ivan Matveich, who is swallowed alive by a crocodile...
was published in the last issue. The Crocodile, taken as an attack on Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and his article Mr -bov and the Question of Art, criticising the views of Nikolay Dobrolyubov created considerable controversy between Dostoyevsky and Russian liberals.
After Mikhail Dostoyevsky's death in 1864, Fyodor became chief editor. He was forced to discontinue publication of the magazine in February of 1865 due to financial problems.
Along with Dostoyevsky's works, Epoch published articles by Apollon Grigoryev
Apollon Grigoryev
Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev was a Russian poet, literary and theatrical critic, translator, memoirist, as well as the author of a number of popular songs and romances....
and Nikolay Strakhov
Nikolay Strakhov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Strakhov, also transliterated as Nikolai Strahov , was a Russian philosopher, publicist and literary critic who shared the ideals of pochvennichestvo. He was a long-time friend and correspondent of Leo Tolstoy....
, stories by major writers such as Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...
and Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is...
, and the popular fiction of Vsevolod Krestovsky
Vsevolod Krestovsky
Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky , February 23, 1840 – January 30, 1895, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Krestovsky came from an old family of Ukrainian gentry. In 1857 he enrolled in the Historico-Philological faculty of St Petersburg University...
and others.