Army and Navy (newspaper)

“Army and Navy” is a large daily “military and social-literary newspaper with weekly illustrated applications”, published in St. Petersburg in early 1908, edited by the cornet of the Guards Field Gendarme Squadron, Sun. Trilitsky and Major General for the Admiralty M. Levitsky; the publisher designated the projected but unfulfilled joint-stock company Army and Navy with a capital of 1,500,000 rubles. Tasks of the society:
1) improving the material life of officers through the establishment of a mutual insurance society for army and navy officers (active service, retired and alternate), their mutual aid societies, building houses for officer flats, setting up cheap officer canteens and the like;
2) raising the military and general education of army and navy officers with lectures, educational excursions, publishing of press organs and the like.
The goal of the newspaper is: “to serve the interests of the army and the fleet, to be an expression of their needs and desirable reforms, caused not by staff dreams, but by actual practical life and urgent needs”. Employees have not been announced; The names of A. Belomor, Yu. Yelets, V. Sukhodrev, N. Breshko-Breshkovsky and separate articles by E. Kolbasiev and M. Sokolovsky were met more often than others by the editors. The general direction of the “Army and Navy” did not have time to express itself with sufficient certainty: antipathy towards the “intelligentsia” and strict “nationalism” coexisted on its columns with attacks on “bureaucracy” and with strivings to shorten the period of compulsory active military service. Changes in the form of clothes, collegial certification, the police service of the troops were met with a newspaper very disapprovingly, with sharp criticism. Only 6 issues of the newspaper came out - 2 trial in 1907 and 4 in 1908. The newspaper was suspended by the order of the St. Petersburg Mayor, by virtue of the emergency protection provision, for the duration of this provision in St. Petersburg. Judging by the numbers published, "Army and Navy" did not have the data to gain a solid position and influence.