Niva (Field), journal

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NIVA (The Field), an illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life, which appeared from 1870 through to 1917, in A. F. Marx's publishing house (until 1904) consecutively under the editorships of : V. P. Klyushnikov, F. N. Berg, L. I. Stakheev et al. With a circulation of 275.000 issues, was the most popular thin journal for family reading in pre-Revolutionary Russia. It had several supplements: The Monthly Literary Supplement (paperback editions of literary works of the most prominent Russian writers), The Niva Miscellany, Paris Fashion and others. The journal regularly published copies of works by Russian and foreign artists, illustrations, biographies of celebrated cultural figures, articles on archaeology, local history, natural sciences, geography, sport (with a chess section), theory of education, information on all aspects of city life (Niva's publications provided a valuable source for city historical records). The belles-lettres section was represented by works of the epoch's major writers (including Leo Tolstoy's Resurrection). The editorial office was located at 22 Malaya Morskaya Street.

References: Швецова Л. К. Массовые еженедельники для пестрого читателя // Литературный процесс и русская журналистика конца XIX - начала XX века, 1890-1904: Бурж.-либер. и модернист. изд. М., 1982. С. 281-290.

A. B. Muratov. Berg Fedor Nikolaevich
Klyushnikov Viktor Petrovich
Marx Adolf Fedorovich
Stakheev L.I.
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Malaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Швецова Л. К. Массовые еженедельники для "пестрого" читателя // Литературный процесс и русская журналистика конца XIX - начала XX века, 1890-1904: Бурж.-либер. и модернист. изд. М., 1982 1869