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Zhizn (Life), journal


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ZHIZN (Life), social-political, literary and scientific journal, published in St. Petersburg from January 1897 to April 1901 (until April 1899 it appeared three times a month, subsequently monthly), at various times edited and published by S. V. Voeykov, D. M. Ostafyev (also jointly with M. V. Kalitin), М. S. Ermolaev. With publicist and public figure V. A. Posse virtually taking over the journal's editorship in early 1899, it became the organ of legal Marxism, thus inheriting the traditions of the Novoe slovo and Nachalo. The scientific and journalist section of the journal was represented by works of P.B. Struve, E. Bernstein, E. Wanderweld, V. Zombart, А. S. Izgoev, S. N. Bulgakov and many others. The orientation of the literary section from August 1899 was largely dominated by Maxim Gorky. He published in the Zhizn his stories Foma Gordeev, Three of Them and other works, as well as Anton Chekhov's story In the Ravine, D. S. Merezhkovsky's novel Leonardo da Vinci. Among others L. N. Andreev, . D. Balmont, I. A. Bunin, V. V. Veresaev, N. G. Garin (real name Mikhaylovsky), Zinaida Gippius, D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, N. M. Minsky, А. S. Serafimovich contributed to Zhizn. The editorial office was located at 20 Znamenskaya Street (presently Vosstaniya Street), playing the role of a semi-political club. Following the student unrest in February - March 1901 and the publication of Gorky's Song of a Storm Petrel in the April issue the editorial staff were arrested and the publication suppressed. In 1902 the Zhizn was published under Posse's editorship in the Great Britain and Switzerland.

References: Поссе В. А. Мой жизненный путь: Дорев. период (1864-1917 гг.). М.; Л., 1929; Келдыш В. А. Жизнь // Литературный процесс и русская журналистика конца XIX - начала XX века, 1890-1904: Соц.-демокр. и общедемокр. издания. М., 1981. С. 231-308.

D. N. Cherdakov.

Persons
Andreev Leonid Nikolaevich
Balmont Konstantin Dmitrievich
Bernstein Eduard
Bulgakov Sergey Nikolaevich
Bunin Ivan Alexeevich
Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
Garin-Mikhailovsky (real name Mikhailovsky Nikolay Georgievich)
Gippius Zinaida Nikolaevna
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Izgoev Alexander Solomonovich
Kalitin M.V.
Mamin-Sibiryak (real name Mamin) Dmitry Narkisovich
Merezhkovsky Dmitry Sergeevich
Minsky (born Vilenkin) Nikolay Maximovich
Ostafyev D.M.
Posse Vladimir Alexandrovich
Serafimovich Alexander Serafimovich
Sombart Werner
Struve Peter Berngardovich
Veresaev (born Smidovich) Vikenty Vikentievich
Voeykov S.V.

Addresses
Vosstaniya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 20

Bibliographies
Поссе В. А. Мой жизненный путь: Дорев. период (1864-1917 гг.). М.; Л., 1929
Келдыш В. А. "Жизнь" // Литературный процесс и русская журналистика конца XIX - начала XX века, 1890-1904: Соц.-демокр. и общедемокр. изд. М., 1981



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Vosstaniya Street

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