Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich was a Russian writer, best known for his first two novels, The Village and Anton Goremyka. He was lauded as the first author to have realistically portrayed the life of
Portrait by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky, 1856
Self-portrait of the young Grigorovich.
Contributors to Sovremennik: Grigorovich (top center) next to Leo Tolstoy, Bottom row: (from left) Goncharov, Turgenev, Druzhinin, and Ostrovsky. Photograph by Sergey Levitsky, 1856.
Dmitry Grigorovich in the late 1850s; photograph by Andrey Denyer
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
Contributors to Sovremennik
"Inevitable Contributors"