Andrey Kraevsky, Publisher of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Abstract

The review is devoted to the monograph by literary historian Svetlana M. Voloshina Power and Journalism. Nicholas I, Andrei Kraevsky, and Others (Publishing House “Delo” RANEPA, 2022), where the relationship between the Russian government and journalism during the reign of Nicholas I and the peculiarities of the functioning of censorship at that time are examined in detail and with plenty of materials. A key place in the book is occupied by the figure of the editor of the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski A.A. Kraevsky (1810–1889), known, among other things, as the publisher of most of Dostoevsky’s works in the 1840s.

Keywords

• a.a. kraevsky
• censorship
• the seven dark years
• m.a. korf
• the magazine “otechestvennye zapiski”
• history of journalism
• “a weak heart.”