Alexander Vasilievich Nikitenko was a literary historian from the Russian Empire. A well-educated Ukrainian serf of Count Sheremetev who was granted freedom under pressure from Kondraty Ryleyev and ot
Portrait of Nikitenko by Ivan Kramskoi (1877)
Sovremennik was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out four times a year in 1836–1843 and once a month after that. The magazine publ
The title page of the issue printed after the death of Alexander Pushkin
Most popular contributors to Sovremennik in 1856 (left to right): Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Grigorovich, Alexander Druzhinin and Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Contributors to Sovremennik
"Inevitable Contributors"