Letopis (The Chronicle), journal

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LETOPIS (The Chronicle) monthly literary, scientific and political journal, founded and virtually edited by Maxim Gorky. The journal united authors and publicists opposing nationalism and WW I. It came out from December 1915 until December 1917 with a circulation of 10,000-12,000 issues, under the official editorship of A. F. Radzishevsky and with A. N. Tikhonov as the publisher. The editorial office was situated at 1 B. Monetnaya Street. The journal published works of Gorky, Аlexander Blok, V. Y. Bryusov, Ivan Bunin, Sergey Esenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, М. М. Prishvin, E. Verhaeren, Jack London, Romain Rolland, Herbert Wells, Anatole France et al. Publicists B. V. Avilov, O. А. Ermansky, V. Kerzhentsev (P.M. Lebedev), L. B. Kamenev, Y. Larin (М. А. Lourie), M. S. Olminsky, N. N. Sukhanov (Gimmer) (predominantly adhering to social democratic principles, whose articles determined the position of the Letopis) were engaged as staff writers. K. A. Timiryazev headed the science section, V. A. Bazarov the philosophical section. The journal had been continually censored for an anti-war stance. In 1917 the Letopis harshly made a stand against the Bolsheviks, condemning the events of October 1917.

References: Нинов А. А. М. Горький и Летопись // Нева. 1966. № 1. С. 176-181; Дубинская Т. И. Летопись // Русская литература и журналистика начала XX века, 1905-1917: Большевист. и общедемокр. изд. М., 1984. С. 202-227.

M. V. Zakharova. Avilov Boris Vasilievich
Bazarov (real name Rudnev) Vladimir Alexandrovich
Blok G.P.
Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich
Bunin Ivan Alexeevich
Ermansky Osip Arkadievich
Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich
France Anatole
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Kamenev (Rozenfeld) Lev Borisovich
Kerzhentsev V. (Platon Mikhailovich Lebedev)
Larin Yury (real name Lurie Mikhail Zalmanovich)
London Jack (real name Griffith John)
Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich
Olminsky Mikhail Stepanovich
Prishvin Mikhail Mikhailovich
Radzishevsky A.F.
Rolland Romain
Sukhanov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Tikhonov Alexander Nikolaevich
Timiryazev Klimenty Arkadievich
Verhaeren Emile
Wells Herbert George
Bolshaya Monetnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Нинов А. А. М. Горький и "Летопись" // Нева, 1966
Дубинская Т. И. "Летопись" // Русская литература и журналистика начала XX века, 1905 - 1917: Большевист. и общедемокр. изд. М., 1984