Russkaya Beseda was a Russia

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n literary magazine founded in Moscow

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, Russian Empire

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, in 1856

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 by Alexander Koshelev, who was also its editor-in-chief (from 1858 – co-editor, alongside Ivan Aksakov

Ivan Aksakov

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). The magazine belonged to the Slavophile

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 movement; most prominent in it were the "literature", "science" and "criticism" sections, Selskoye blagoustroistvo; (Agrarian landscaping) in 1858-1859 was added as a supplement. Among the authors who regularly contributed to Russkaya Beseda, were Sergei Aksakov

Sergei Aksakov

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, Vladimir Dal

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, Aleksey K. Tolstoy

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

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, Alexander Ostrovsky, Aleksey Khomyakov

Aleksey Khomyakov

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, Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Tyutchev

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, Ivan Nikitin, Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

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