Russkaya Beseda

Russkaya Beseda (Russian: Ру′сская бесе′да, English: The Russian Colloquy) was a Russian literary magazine founded in Moscow, Russian Empire, in 1856 by Alexander Koshelev. Koshelev was its editor-in-chief until 1858, when he became co-editor alongside Ivan Aksakov. The magazine belonged to the Slavophile movement; most prominent in it were the "literature", "science" and "criticism" sections, Selskoye blagoustroistvo; (Agrarian landscaping) in 1858–1859 was added as a supplement. Among the authors who regularly contributed to Russkaya Beseda, were Sergei Aksakov, Vladimir Dal, Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Alexander Ostrovsky, Aleksey Khomyakov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Ivan Nikitin, Taras Shevchenko.^[1]

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