The Literary Gazette is a Soviet and Russian weekly literary and political publication .
" Literary newspaper " | |
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Original title | |
Type of | literary |
Format | A2 |
Chief Editor | Maxim Zamshev |
Founded | 1929 |
Tongue | Russian |
Main office | 105066, Moscow, Staraya Basmannaya ul., D. 18, bld. 1, 2nd and 3rd floor |
Circulation |
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ISSN | 0233-4305 |
Awards | |
Web site | lgz.ru |
Content
History
The logo of the newspaper is decorated with the profiles of A. S. Pushkin and M. Gorky . The modern “Literary Gazette” officially [1] claims its origin from A. Pushkin’s “ Literary Gazette ”.
It is as if continuing the traditions of the Literary Gazette, founded in 1830 by A. Pushkin. [2]
- Wolfgang Kazak
The newspaper initially did not identify itself with the same editions of the XIX century; until 1990, the date of foundation of the newspaper was 1929.
1929-1967
The newspaper was first published on April 22, 1929 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky and with the participation of the writer Ivan Kataev as an organ of the Federation of Soviet Writers' Associations .
In 1932–1934, the newspaper became the organ of the Organizing Committee of the Union of Soviet Writers of the USSR and the RSFSR, after the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, the organ of the Executive Board of the USSR Writers' Union .
Since January 1942, as a result of unification with the newspaper “Soviet Art”, it was published under the name “Literature and Art”, since November 1944, the former name was returned.
Since 1947, transformed into a literary and socio-political newspaper. The frequency and volume of it changed.
1967–1990
From January 1, 1967 (editor Alexander Chakovsky ), the newspaper acquired a new look and began to appear once a week (on Wednesdays) on 16 pages, becoming the first “fat” newspaper in the country. In her logo appeared the profile of Pushkin , and subsequently Gorky . The birth of a new format was accompanied by a nice joke:
Our tired, old body
So exhausted, so frayed,
What does he really
It is difficult three times a week.
God forbid
It turned out every seven days,
But he is not our rascal,
Turn into a yearbook.
(author N.V. Talk )
The newspaper began to cover a wide range of topics - literature, art, politics, society, morality and law, science, life, and other topics of interest to journalism . On its pages were published all the largest writers of the RSFSR and other union republics, many prominent foreign writers. In her articles on social and political issues, a higher level of freedom of opinion and liberalism was allowed than in most Soviet newspapers of that time. . "LG" is becoming one of the most cited in the world of Soviet and then Russian periodicals.
The club of 12 chairs , which occupied the last, 16th page of the newspaper, gained particular popularity. The Club was led by Victor Veselovsky and Ilya Suslov . Among humorists published on the strip, many later gained considerable fame, including Arkady Arkanov , Grigory Gorin , Zinovy Paperny , Mikhail Zhvanetsky , Eduard Uspensky , Mikhail Zadornov , Igor Irtenyev , Viktor Shenderovich , Viktor Koklyushkin , Lyon Izmaylov , Yevgeny Shatko and many others . A well-known Soviet parodist Alexander Ivanov constantly published in the “Club of 12 chairs”, popular caricaturists Vitaly Peskov worked (who became the undisputed leader of the national caricature and started it in “LG”), Vagrich Bakhchanyan , Vladimir Ivanov and Igor Makarov , Oleg Tesler , Vasily Dubov , Mikhail Zlatkovsky , Andrei Bilzho , Sergei Tyunin , Igor Kopelnitsky and others.
In 1970, the newspaper’s editorship established the Golden Calf Annual Prize, which was awarded for the best, in the opinion of the editors, satirical and humorous works published in the “Twelve Chairs” category [3] .
In 1967–1971, a well-known domestic demographer Viktor Perevedentsev was a newspaper columnist; his articles appeared here regularly until 1990. In 1970, according to a survey of readership, Victor Perevedentsev, not being a professional journalist, took the second place in popularity among the authors of the newspaper. [4] Arkady Vaksberg worked in the editorial office.
Alexander Chakovsky was the editor-in-chief of Literaturnaya Gazeta until December 16, 1988.
After 1990
In 1990, “LH” in accordance with the new “Law on Press” became an independent publication. The profile of A. M. Gorky disappeared from the logo of the newspaper, and the editors began to consider the year 1830 as the foundation of the newspaper. In 1997, the editors of "LG" was transformed into the OJSC "Literary Gazette Publishing House". Konstantin Kostin became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Literary Gazette Publishing House OJSC.
From 1991 to 1998, the Literary Gazette was headed by Arkady Petrovich Udaltsov. In 1998–1999 ND Bodnaruk was the chief editor, in 1999–2001 - L. N. Gushchin .
2000s
On April 19, 2001, writer Yuri Polyakov was appointed chief editor, who had previously repeatedly published articles on sociological and political subjects in the newspaper.
The focus of the publication immediately changes to 180 degrees, the Literary Gazette receives a conservatively patriotic focus.
It so happened that the people I knew even from the Komsomol became serious businessmen. They saw that in their liberal version Literaturnaya Gazeta would soon disappear altogether, there would be no one to read it, except for two hundred crazy liberals inside Moscow, and invited me to head the newspaper. [5] <...> Only a return to the Pushkin idea of “free conservatism” helped us recover many lost readers and win new ones. [6]
- Yuri Polyakov
In 2004, the profile of Maxim Gorky was returned to the newspaper’s logo.
If until 1990, the newspaper’s logo, emphasizing the claim to double continuity, had the profiles of Pushkin and Gorky, after 1990, only Pushkin, then since 2004, both profiles have been again on it. Accordingly, the direction of the newspaper is a rather amusing conglomeration of Soviet ideas about the cultural canon and imperial state ambitions with a bias towards Russian nationalism . That is, the publication is frankly conservative and in this way certain sections of modern Russian society, of course, are in demand. But at the same time, which is not surprising, the real influence of the Literary Gazette on our cultural situation is rapidly approaching zero. It would not be an exaggeration to say that sometimes an almanac of 100 copies becomes a more significant phenomenon than this newspaper with its many thousands (at least, so they write on its website) circulation. [7]
- Anna Golubkova
The newspaper established the Delvig Prize, which in the 19th century founded the first of the same-name modern Literary Gazette publications, the continuity in relation to which LG was trying to emphasize as much as possible. From October 1, 2012, the prize, known as “Golden Delvig” [8] , was positioned by the Literary Gazette as an annual “Russian national prize”. [9]
In the Literary Gazette on March 21, 2018, an article was published about the outstanding German Russian scientist and Slavist Max Vassmer , which the scientific community regarded as slanderous and obscurantist. Slavist and etymologist Academician A. E. Anikin : “I consider it necessary to declare that this article is an ignorant slander of a great scientist.” Anikin's open letter with a protest to this article, published in the newspaper “ Troitsky Variant - Science ”, was signed by more than five hundred Russian and foreign Russian scholars and Slavists, among them Academicians of the RAS Yu. D. Apresyan , S. M. Tolstaya , V. A. Plungyan , full member of the British Academy of Sciences, Catriona Kelly , academician of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Jerzy Bartminski , Academician of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Aleksandar Loma , full member and vice president of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences Werner Lefeldt , corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.V. Dybo , E.L. Berezovich , S.I. Nikolaev , E.V. Golovko , S. A. Myznikov , F. B. Uspensky and others [10] .
Chief Editors
- 1929-1930: S.I. Kanatchikov
- 1930: B.S. Alder
- 1930-1931, 1932-1933: S. S. Dinamov
- 1931-1932: A.P. Selivanovsky
- 1933–1935: A. A. Bolotnikov
- 1935–1937: L. M. Subotsky
- 1937-1939: editorial board ( V. P. Stavsky ; E. P. Petrov , V. I. Lebedev-Kumach ; N. F. Pogodin , O. S. Voitinskaya )
- 1939-1941: A. Kulagin
- 1942–1944: A. A. Fadeev
- 1944–1946: A. Surkov
- 1946–1950: V. Ermilov
- 1950-1953: K.M. Simonov
- 1953–1955: B. Ryurikov
- 1958: V. Druzin ( I. O. )
- 1955-1959: V. Kochetov
- 1959–1960: S. S. Smirnov
- 1960-1962: V. Kosolapov
- 1962-1988: A. Chakovsky
- 1988-1990: Yu. P. Voronov
- 1990-1991: F. M. Burlatsky
- 1991–1998: A. Udaltsov
- 1998-1999: N. D. Bodnaruk
- 1999—2001: L.N. Gushin
- 2001—2017: Yu. M. Polyakov
- since 2017: M.A. Zamshev
Awards
- Order of Lenin (1971)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1979)
Addresses
- Tverskoy Boulevard, 25 (Herzen House)
- Last Lane, 26
- Street October 25, 19 (May 1941)
- Stanislavsky Street 24 (1945)
- Spiridonovka, 2
- Tsvetnoy Boulevard 30 (1953-1958)
- Khokhlovsky lane, 10
- Kostyansky lane, 13
- Old Basmannaya street, 18, p. 1
Sources
- ↑ Historical background
- ↑ Kazak V. Lexicon of Russian literature of the XX century = Lexikon der russischen Literatur ab 1917 / [trans. with him.]. - M .: RIK "Culture", 1996. - XVIII, 491, [1] p. - 5000 copies - ISBN 5-8334-0019-8 . . - p. 229.
- ↑ Literary Award “The Golden Calf” (Inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is June 28, 2015. Archived July 1, 2015.
- ↑ Viktor Ivanovich Perevedentsev
- ↑ Yuri Polyakov . I am a dead battery // Gazeta.ru.
- ↑ Yuri Polyakov . The third century with readers // Literary Gazette. 2010. No. 1.
- ↑ Anna Golubkova . Literary hunters // Colta.ru . March 26, 2013.
- ↑ Evening Moscow - Literaturnaya Gazeta issued its own award (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is January 28, 2013. Archived on February 1, 2013.
- ↑ Golden Delvig | Number 47 (2012) | Literary Russia (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is January 28, 2013. Archived on February 2, 2013.
- ↑ Darkened Anniversary - Trinity Option - Science . trv-science.ru. The appeal date is June 11, 2018.
Links
- Literary Gazette website
- Electronic copies of the Literary Gazette in the NFM Guidebook “Newspapers in the Network and Outside It”
- History reference
- Old LH numbers (1937-1987)
- The article "Literary Gazette" in the Literary Encyclopedia (1929-1939)
- Two articles about different Literary newspapers in TSB : [1] [2]
- An open letter to the owners of the Literary Gazette