Russian Mind
[2] At the time of its first publications, Russkaya Mysl, (originally: Russian Thought), adhered to moderate constitutionalism – the idea which paved the way for the ideological and organizational creation of the Cadet Party.
[5] The founder of the magazine Russkaya Mysl, Vukol Mikhailovich Lavrov, was born on September 23, 1852, in a merchant family in the small rural town of Yelets.
After Yuryev's death, Viktor Goltsev became the editor; under his guidance the magazine made a turn to the left and provided safe haven for many contributors of the recently closed Otechestvennye Zapiski, taking upon itself some of the letter's subscription obligations.
Russkaya Mysl’s adherence to moderate constitutionalism led to the magazine receiving two warnings: the first – for the ‘Petersburg Letters’ in the December issue of 1883, the second – for the article by V.A.
[1] Russkaya Mysl was often called the organ of the Cadet Party, but Struve himself denied this: ‘The period of certain magazines which tend to represent certain political views, in my opinion, is over.
The first editor of the new Russkaya Mysl was the pre-revolutionary Russian journalist Vladimir Lazarevsky and, following World War II, the newspaper acquired a new official sponsor in the person of the US State Department.
Sergei Grigoryants noted that, with the arrival of the new editor-in-chief, ‘the newspaper's attention was no longer the news and problems of Russian emigration, but everything that was happening in the Soviet Union (which had already begun to open-up), and most importantly, its dissident democratic movement’.
During this period, representatives of the ‘third wave’ of emigration and, also, human rights activists, Western Slavists, Sovietologists and dissidents were published in Russkaya Mysl.
After the collapse of the USSR, and the fall of the Iron Curtain, the publication reoriented itself to rallying Russian-speaking communities abroad and restoring ties between compatriots and the Motherland.
Eventually the Roman Catholic Church and the Soros Foundation announced that they would help the legendary publication to weather those hard times.
Due to administrative difficulties, which were caused by Brexit, followed by the Pandemic, the board of directors decided to relocate back to Paris and, in 2021, Russian Mind again began to be published there.
Now headquartered in 8th district, and continuing to be published monthly, Russian Mind stays true to its mission of being a beam of cultural enrichment for broad-minded individuals.
In it appeared works by such authors as Nikolai Leskov, Konstantin Sluchevsky, Alexey Apukhtin, Count Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, Grigory Danilevsky.
Both Marxism followers, 'economic materialists' and narodniks here were equally welcomed, as well as writers who attempted to make peace between warring ideological and literary factions.
Russkaya Mysl regularly published works by literary critics Mikhail Gromeka (he was the one who gave the publicity to the unknown parts of Lev Tolstoy's Confession), Alexander Kirpichnikov, Orest Miller, Nikolai Mikhaylovsky, Viktor Ostrogorsky, Mikhail Protopopov, Alexander Skabichevsky, Vladimir Spasovih, Nikolai Storozhenko, Semyon Vengerov.
Regularly contributed to the magazine were anthropologist and ethnographist Dmitry Anuchin, historians Pavel Vinogradov, Mykola Kostomarov, Pavel Milyukov, Robert Vipper, Yevgeny Karnovich, Nikolai Kareev, Vladimir Gerye, Grigory Dzhanshiyev, Mikhail Korelin, climatologist Alexander Voyeykov, economists Ivan Ivanyukov, Andrey Isayev, Lev Zak, Nikolai Kablukov, Nikolai Chernyshevsky (who under the moniker of Andreev published here his poems too), lawyers Count Leonid Kamarovsky, Pyotr Obninsky, Sergey Muromtsev, Maxim Kovalevsky, philosophers Vladimir Lesevich, Vladimir Solovyov, zoologist Mikhail Menzbir, philologists Fyodor Mishchenko, Vasily Modestov.
