Zhenskii vestnik (Russian: Women's Herald) was a Russian language monthly feminist magazine which was published in Saint Petersburg in the period 1904–1917.
[1] The magazine billed itself as monthly social scientific and literary journal on equality and advancement of women.
[1] Zhenskii vestnik was established by the Russian feminist Mariia Ivanovna Pokrovskaia in 1904.
[1] Until 1907 the magazine of which both editor and publisher was Pokrovskaia acted as the official organ of the Union of Women.
[3] Pokrovskaia also express her belief in women’s natural superiority to men[3] and her opposition to the views of Leo Tolstoy on the 1905 revolution in her articles.