Bulletin of South-Western and Western Russia

The monthly historical and literary magazine Vestnik of South-Western and Western Russia was published in Kiev from July 1862 to July 1864.

Published and edited the journal K. A. Govorsky .

The Vestnik was published with the goal of weakening Polish influence in Lithuania and Ukraine, propagandizing the Russification and colonialist policies of the tsarist government in western Russia. The editorial saw the main source of power of the Russian state in the presence of solid monarchical power.

The Bulletin opposed the distribution of the works of T. G. Shevchenko and other Ukrainian writers among the people, did not recognize the independence of the Ukrainian language. The magazine opposed the progressive periodicals, especially against Sovremennik .

It so happened that Russian literature first appeared before me in the form of only the “Bulletin of South-Western and Western Russia”, published for the purposes of Russification by Govorsky. His extract was obligatory for officials, so the whole mountains of Vestnik lay in his father’s office, but it seems that my older brother and I were his only and not particularly zealous readers. In content it was roughly tendentious cooking. All Russians were portrayed as heroes of virtue, and of the Poles, only those who cheated on their compatriots seemed good ... All this left in the soul a precipitate of bad taste and conscious lies.

- V. Korolenko. The history of my contemporary. Book one.

In July 1 864, the publication was transferred to Vilna and the magazine is called the “ Bulletin of Western Russia ”.

• Bulletin // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Bulletin of South-Western and Western Russia // Russian Periodical Press (1702-1894): Reference Book / Edited by A. G. Dementiev , A. V. Zapadov , M. S. Cherepakhov . - M .: State. political literature publishing house , 1959. - S. 423. - 835 p.