Vek (magazine)

Vek (The Century) was a Russian weekly magazine which was published in Saint Petersburg from January 1861 till May 1862.
History
Vek '​s first editor was Pyotr Weinberg. Alexander Druzhinin was the head of a literature department, while Konstantin Kavelin and Vladimir Bezobrazov supervised the law and economy sections, respectively. There was a strong group of regular contributors to Vek: Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Nekrasov, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Nikolai Leskov, Nikolai Uspensky, Mikhail Mikhaylov, and Pyotr Boborykin among them. In August 1861 Weinberg's satire aimed at some literary charity in Perm, involving a local activist Tolmachyeva, outraged Russian feminists and in December he quit his post, making Grigory Yeliseyev his successor.
Vek '​s political agenda was eclectic. The journal's publicist section bore a strong narodnik influence: Yeliseyev, Afanasy Shchapov, and Nikolai Shelgunov promoted the idea of Russia's own, non...