[1] Syn otechestva was Russia's most influential magazine between the Napoleonic wars and the Decembrist Revolt.
It grew increasingly conservative after Nicholas I's accession to the throne, losing a liberal-minded readership to Sovremennik and Otechestvennye Zapiski.
In 1837 Gretsch and Bulgarin sold Syn otechestva to Aleksandr Smirdin.
Later editors included Nikolai Polevoy, Aleksandr Nikitenko, and Osip Senkovsky.
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