Zhivopisets

Zhivopisets (Russian: "Живописец", which may be translated as Painter) was a Russian weekly magazine, published by Nikolay Novikov^[1] in Saint Petersburg from April 1772 to June 1773.^[2]

Zhivopisets was notable for its political sharpness and variety of satirical genres. The magazine published Отрывок путешествия в*** И*** Т*** (A Fragment of a Journey to*** I*** T***) and Письма к Фалалею (Letters to Falaley), which contained harsh criticism of the Russian serfdom. Zhivopisets ridiculed a blind admiration with everything French, careerism, and vices of the gentry. The magazine was closed down by the authorities in 1773.

References

1. Gary Marker (14 July 2014). Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800. Princeton University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-4008-5494-3. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
2. Raffaella Faggionato (18 January 2006). A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 270. ISBN 978-1-4020-3487-9. Retrieved 29 September 2015.