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Ladies' Magazine (1823–1833)

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This article is about a Russian literary and artistic periodical. For the American women's magazine of the same name, see Ladies' Magazine.
Ladies' Magazine
CategoriesLiterary and artistic
Frequency2 times per week; since 1829 – weekly
PublisherPeter Shalikov
Founded1823
First issue1823
Final issue1833
CountryRussian Empire
Based inMoscow
LanguageRussian

Ladies' Magazine was a literary and artistic periodical published by writer and journalist Peter Shalikov at the Moscow University printing house. The magazine was published twice a week since 1823, and weekly since 1829.

Poets Vasily Pushkin, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Dmitry Khvostov, playwright Alexander Pisarev collaborated with the publication. Members of the editorial board were writer Mikhail Makarov and censor Ivan Snegirev.

The cost of an annual subscription ranged from 35 to 40 rubles. The last issue was released in 1833.

Thematic focus

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Publisher Peter Shalikov

Starting to publish the Ladies' Journal, Prince Shalikov promised to publish on his pages new works of all genres and "other interesting news for some reason".[1] According to his idea, the magazine was supposed to replace European female publications written out from abroad for readers.[2]

Avoid contradictions to the husband. Do not interfere in anything except household chores. Never demand anything and seem pretty small. A wife may be smarter than her husband, but she should pretend that she does not know. Carefully select friends, have few of them.

– From the teachings of the Ladies' Journal[3]

The magazine published novels and novels, mostly sentimental (translations of the stories of Renneville, Genlis, Beaulieu and others); Much attention was paid to secular news and fashion reviews. A mandatory element of the content were ballads, madrigals, fables, acrostic, charades. Almost every issue published lyrics with notes.[1] The section "Romantic Dictionary" gave original definitions to people and objects: "Corset. Vise of delights, graceful funnel of beautiful waist. Hat. The roof of the human building".[4]

Ladies' Magazine was one of the first in Russia to start posting color illustrations on its pages – these were mainly drawings of Parisian fashion.

Criticism and polemic

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Contemporaries with a certain degree of skepticism belonged to the publishing project of Prince Shalikov. So, Vissarion Belinsky, criticizing the historical novel "Khmelnitsky, or the Accession of Little Russia", casually remarked: "You think that you are reading a tirade from the Ladies' Magazine".[5]

Publishers of the Polar Star Kondraty Ryleyev and Alexander Bestuzhev called Ladies' Magazine "fraudulent". The editor of the Moscow Telegraph, Nikolai Polevoy, noted in one of the articles that "high scholarship is not the destiny of Ladies' Magazine <...> What they only think about the public, if they read Paris skirts and bonnets as the most fascinating adornment of magazines".[4]

The fairly warm relationship that the publisher had with Alexander Pushkin did not stop the poet from writing the ironic epigram "Prince Shalikov, Our Sad Newsboy".[6][7] Moreover, in one of the letters, Alexander Sergeyevich spoke of the prince as a person worthy of respect.[8]

For the polemic with critics, the Anti–Journalism column was created – it was mainly led by Peter Shalikov and Mikhail Makarov.[9] In addition, in 1824, the publication provided its pages to Peter Vyazemsky,[10] who was excommunicated from almost all magazines, and who, after the publication of the Pushkin's "Bakhchisarai Fountain", entered into a literary polemic with the poet Mikhail Dmitriev. The discussion was initiated by Dmitriev in Herald of Europe; Vyazemsky's response was the articles "On Literary Hoaxes", "Analysis of the Second Talk, Published in No. 5 of the Herald of Europe" and "My Last Word", published in the Ladies' Magazine – they listed the "errors" of the opponent, and he was called "prose poet and non-art prose writer".[11]

Relations with the authorities

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Six months after the first issue, the Minister of Public Education of the Russian Empire, Prince Alexander Golitsyn, expressed dissatisfaction with the jokes printed on the pages of the magazine and "ladies' negligee with lace". The Minister also did not like the fact that in Ladies' Magazine "sensual pleasures are set as the goal of real life and happiness", which he informed the trustee of the Moscow school district.[2]

As a result, Prince Shalikov was still allowed to keep fashionable headings in his journal, but it was recommended that "avoid reprehensible epicureism". The publisher apologized and promised that "he will be careful in every way".[2]

Closure of the magazine

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In the November issue for 1833 it was written: "The Ladies' Magazine stops". Prince Shalikov intended to resume the publication of his publication in the future, but his plans did not materialize.

References

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  1. ^ a b Larisa Lytkina. "Russian Protoglossy Magazine Periodicals. To the Statement of the Problem" Saint Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions
  2. ^ a b c Valery Yarkho. From the History of Women's Magazines in Russia
  3. ^ Women's Periodicals: For All Occasions Official Site of the Russian State Library
  4. ^ a b History of Women's Magazines Echo, May 28, 2011
  5. ^ Belinsky. Reviews and Articles (1830–1840)
  6. ^ New Trinkets. Collection for the 60th Anniversary of Vadim Vatsuro
  7. ^ Lesya Sokolskaya (2006). "The First Women's Magazines for Russian Readers (Late 18th – Early 19th Centuries)" (PDF) (2) (Bibliosphere ed.): 18–22. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ^ Poet of Beautiful Ladies Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 31 October 2013
  9. ^ Sergey Denisenko. "Ladies' Magazine". Fundamental Digital Library
  10. ^ Essays on the History of Russian Journalism and Criticism. Vol. 1. Leningrad State University. Philological Institute. 1950. p. 267.
  11. ^ Vladimir Orlov, Arseny Ostrovsky (1931–1932). Epigram and Satire. From the History of Literary Struggle of the 19th Century. Moscow–Leningrad: Academia. ISBN 9783487405483.
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  • Az, Beeches, Lead... Encyclopedia of the Life of Modern Russian Journalism in 2 Volumes. Vol. 1. Edition of the Union of Journalists of Russia. 2007. p. 75. ISBN 978-5-89452-005-6.
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