Epokha (The Epoch), journal

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EPOKHA (The Epoch), a monthly literary and political journal, published in 1864-65 in place of the suppressed Vremya. The editorial office was located at 1 and 7 Meshchanskaya Street (today Kaznacheyskaya Street). After the death of its publisher and editor M. M. Dostoevsky (beginning with issue No 6 for 1864) - M. M. Dostoevsky's family, Fedor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky became its de facto editor with A. U. Poretsky acting as official editor. N. N. Strakhov was the journal's leading publicist, while the staff body was comprised of D. V. Averkiev, А. А. Grigoryev, V. V. Krestovsky, N. S. Leskov, А. N. Maykov, Y. P. Polonsky. Fedor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky published in Ekho his Notes from Underground and other works. Much within the ideological framework of Neo-Slavophilism (so called pochvennichestvo, or return to the soil movement) the journal engaged in a polemic with the journalists of the Sovremennik, and Russkoe Slovo. Despite contributions from prominent writers Epokha had little success whatsoever, and the publication was terminated on the second issue for 1865.

Reference: Нечаева В. С. Журнал М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских Эпоха, 1864-1865. М., 1975.

A. B. Muratov. Averkiev Dmitry Vasilievich
Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky Mikhail Mikhailovich
Grigoryev Apollon Alexandrovich
Krestovsky Vsevolod Vladimirovich
Leskov Nikolay Semenovich
Maykov Apollon Nikolaevich
Polonsky Yakov Petrovich
Poretsky A.U.
Strakhov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 7
Kaznacheiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Нечаева В. С. Журнал М. М. и Ф. М. Достоевских «Эпоха», 1864–1865. М., 1975 Vremya (The Time), journal
Sovremennik (Contemporary), journal
Russkoe slovo (The Russian Word), journal, 1859-1866
1864