“Podsnezhnik. Children and Youth Magazine” (St. Petersburg, 1858–1862). Table of Contents

Abstract

The paper provides a bibliographical description of the contents of “Podsnezhnik” magazine for children and young adults, published in St. Petersburg in 1858–1862 under the editorship of V.N. Maykov. Many well-known writers of the mid-19th century (I.A. Goncharov, D.V. Grigorovich, A.N. Maykov and others) participated in the publication. The introductory article briefly outlines the history of publication of “Podsnezhnik,” characterizes the materials that appeared in it and provides responses of contemporaries, as well as reviews the magazine’s place in the mid-19th-century literary process and its influence on subsequent children’s periodicals.