Literature on the Saratov newspapers pages in 1907

Analytical review of materials from newspapers of Saratov (“Volga”, “Volga Region”, “Saratov Bulletin”, “Saratov Diary”, “Saratov Leaf”) for 1907 allowed to reveal texts related to the literary process of the era. Theatrical and literary reviews, feuilletons, the chronicle and announcements are of great value in addition to narratives, translations and poems. Newspapers content analysis allowed to clarify which of the journalists of the beginning of the 20th century (in that case when they used their full surname for signature) were in collaboration with periodicals and identify the circle of their constructive interests. It also allowed to determine relations between local newspaper’s editorial boards etc. On the example of the newspaper “Saratov Bulletin” it was possible to establish modification of contains of the edition after editor A.J. Lopuchovkiy’s appearing. Newspapers material also afforded to discover the most popular Russian (L.N. Andreev, L.N. Tolstoy, A.P. Chekhov) and foreign (F. Wedekind, K. Hamsun, S. Przybyszewski et al.) writers. The issue of censorial persecutions and absence of a genuine unfettered press had raised in newspapers very frequently, the dangers of the Provisional Rules on temporary publications and Article 129 of the Criminal Regulations.