Moskva (magazine)

Moskva (Москва, Moscow) is a Russian monthly literary magazine founded in 1957 in Moscow.^[1]

History

Moskva magazine was opened in 1957, originally as an organ of the RSFSR Union of Writers and its Moscow department. Its first editor was Nikolay Atarov (1957-1958), followed by Yevgeny Popovkin (1958-1968). It was during his time that (in December 1966 - January 1967 issues) for the first time ever Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was published. ^[1]

The magazine's third leader Mikhail Alekseyev has brought its selling figures to record highs (775 thousand in 1989) and made history too by publishing Nikolay Karamzin's the History of the Russian State (1989-1990) for the first time since 1917. In the 1990s and 2000s, under Vladimir Krupin (1990-1992) and Leonid Borodin (1992-2008), Moskva, along with Nash Sovremennik magazine and Alexander Prokhanov’s Den/Zavtra newspapers, moved into the vanguard of the so-called 'spiritual opposition' movement. In 1993 the subtitle, The Magazine of Russian Culture, was added to the magazine’s title.^[1]

In 2000s, under Borodin (who in 2009 became the magazine's general director), self-proclaimed 'Russian nationalist' Sergey Sergeyev (2009-2010) and Vladislav Artyomov (2012-), Moskva's popularity declined, with circulation figures dropping to mere 3,5 thousand. Still, it was here that Dmitry Rogozin chose to publish his novel Baron Zholtok.^[2]

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