Birzhevye Vedomosti (The Stock-Exchange Gazette), 1880-1917

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BIRZHEVYE VEDOMOSTI (The Stock-Exchange Gazette). 1) A daily commercial, political and literary newspaper. It was founded in 1861 as a merger of the Kommercheskaya Gazeta and Zhurnal Dlya Aktsionerov. Financier and entrepreneur K. V. Trubnikov was its founder. It published financial and economic information. In 1874 V. A. Poletika purchased the editorial rights, turning it in to an oppositional minded organ. N. S. Kurochkin and V. S. Kurochkin, А. N. Pleshcheev, N. K. Mikhailovsky et al contributed to the Birzhevye Vedomosti. The gazette was subject to censorship; in 1879 it was reorganised as Molva (appeared until 1881). 2) A Birzhevye vedomosti, on finances, commerce and public life (since 1905 circulated as a political, public and literary newspaper) of a moderate liberal orientation. It was founded by S. M. Propper on the basis of the Birzhevoy Vestnik and Russky Mir. Circulated from November 1880 to October 1917 (in 1880 - twice a week, in 1881 - four times a week, from 1885 - on a daily basis); from 1893 - in two editions: for St. Petersburg and (at a reduced price) for the Province. From 1902 the first edition of Birzhevoy Vestnik came out in two issues: morning and evening. S. M. Propper, V. А. Bondi, I. I. Yasinsky et al. were the newspaper's publishers and editors. The editorial office was situated at 40 Galernaya Street. In 1905 the newspaper became the organ of the Constitutional-democratic party, and renamed Svobodny Narod, the edition was suppressed for publishing the Manifesto of the Petersburg Soviet of Workers Deputies, from 15 December 1905 was known as Narodnaya Svoboda; P. N. Milyukov, I. V. Hessen, P. B. Struve were among its editors. Its edition was suppressed for publishing Struve's article on the armed insurrection in Moscow. In December 1905 was reinstated under its original name by Propper, А. V. Amfiteatrov, P. D. Boborykin, N. N. Breshko-Breshkovsky, А. L. Volynsky, Zinaida Gippius, S. M. Gorodetsky, S. G. Petrov (the Vagabond), N. Teffi et al. contributed to the Birzhevoy Vestnik. The gazette also published a number of supplements and brochure series. In October 1917 it was closed down by the Decree of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, its printing-works were handed over to the Baltic Fleet.

References: Ясинский И. И. Роман моей жизни: Кн. воспоминаний. М.; Л., 1926; Голиков А. Г. Русские газеты начала XX века: (Опыт выявления и характеристики изд., отразивших деятельность отеч. монополий) // Вестн. МГУ. Сер. 8, История. 1987. №2. С. 37-46; Коновалова А. В. К вопросу об истории газеты Биржевые ведомости // Экономическая история: Обозрение. М., 2001. Вып. 6.

M. V. Zakharova, D. N. Cherdakov. Amfiteatrov Alexander Valentinovich
Boborykin Peter Dmitrievich
Bondi Vladimir Alexandrovich
Breshko-Breshkovsky Nikolay Nikolaevich
Gippius Zinaida Nikolaevna
Gorodetsky Sergey Mitrofanovich
Hessen Iosif Vladimirovich
Kurochkin A.M.
Kurochkin Nikolay Stepanovich
Mikhaylovsky Nikolay Konstantinovich
Milyukov Pavel Nikolaevich
Petrov (Skitalets) Stepan Gavrilovich
Pleshcheev Alexey Nikolaevich
Poletika Vasily Apollonovich
Propper Stanislav Maximilianovich
Struve Peter Berngardovich
Teffi Nadezhda Alexandrovna
Trubnikov Konstantin Vasilievich
Volynsky (Flexer) Akim Lvovich
Yasinsky Ieronim Ieronimovich
Galernaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Ясинский И. И. Роман моей жизни: Кн. воспоминаний. М.; Л., 1926
Голиков А. Г. Русские газеты начала XX века: (Опыт выявления и характеристики изд., отразивших деятельность отеч. монополий) // Вестн. МГУ. Сер. 8, История, 1987
Коновалова А. В. К вопросу об истории газеты "Биржевые ведомости" // Экономическая история. Обозрение. М., 2001 Baltic Fleet
1880