“We lived then in the suburbs of Paris, Vincennes, in a small furnished apartment, consisting of one small room with a kitchen. Our family consisted of three people: me, my husband and an eleven-year-old daughter. Autumn 1933 I am unemployed, my husband is rather seriously ill, my daughter went to school. My husband had been ill with pulmonary tuberculosis ever since his imprisonment in the Butyrka prison in Moscow, where he served hard labor, chained hand and foot, and where he spent nine years and from where he was released as a political prisoner by the revolution. He left prison without one lung, and now his second lung, also afflicted with tuberculosis, was failing. In addition, he was tormented by the last couple of years and tuberculosis of the bones. Two ribs were affected, on which large painful bumps filled with pus constantly formed. He was also worried about a non-healing wound on his leg, shot in one of the battles with an explosive bullet. He limped on that leg. Fragments of an explosive bullet came out of the wound from time to time.

Once I read an announcement in the Russian newspaper Latest News that a Russian children's boarding school needed workers. I went to the indicated address and got a job as a laundress in a boarding house for Russian girls in Kensi, while the patient's husband was left alone at home. On Sundays I occasionally visited him. Many of his comrades often visited him. In the winter he became worse, and around March 1934 we placed him in one of the French hospitals in Paris.

On Sundays I often visited him in the hospital. Here I met with numerous of his comrades, both Russian and French. One emigrant from the former White Guards from Yudenich's troops, a certain Yakov Filippovich Karaban, often visited her husband. And we met while living in the same hotel on the same floor in Vincennes. He often came to us, talked for a long time with her husband and was always a welcome guest.

Despite being in the hospital, her husband's health did not improve. In June, the doctors decided to perform an operation - (take out) remove two ribs affected by tuberculosis. At the end of June, one evening, I went to see him in the hospital. He was very tired, exhausted and weak. To my question: "Well, how?" He did not answer, only tears rolled from his eyes. I cried too. There was nothing more to talk about ... I realized that it was hard for him, that his vitality was leaving him, that he was no longer a tenant in this world. And a few days later, a friend, Maxim, comes to my work in Kensi by taxi and says: “Galina, we’re going to Paris right now, Nestor is dying” ...

It's sad... The death of every person is tragic, no matter what he may be in his sinful existence. And yet we try to guess: who is it? Who so peacefully and meekly paid off life in a poor hospital, in loneliness and restlessness? A modest employee, a hard worker-loser, an intellectual confused in life, a ruined entrepreneur? ...

No and no. The name of the hero of the letter once, not so long before his death, thundered throughout Russia, echoes spread all over the world. The name smelled of gunpowder, blood, the sweat of war horses, gun oil, the harness of war carts. It, this name, has become a symbol of our civil war - bloody and merciless to each other. A symbol of Russian dashing and prowess, contempt for one's own and - to our great misfortune - someone else's life.

This name is Nestor Ivanovich Makhno. About him, and most importantly - about the cases connected with him, and the story will go in our book ...

26
aug
2016

Roman newspaper (432 issues)

Format: PDF/ DjVu/ RTF/ DOC/ TXT/ FB2 Scanned pages
different
Release years: 1939, 1940, 1942, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993
Genre: literary and art magazine
Publisher: Goslitizdat
Russian language
Number of pages: 432 x ~36-307

Description: Roman-gazeta is a Soviet and Russian literary magazine published monthly since 1927 and twice a month since 1957.
By July 1987 (on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the magazine), 1066 issues of Roman-gazeta had been published with a total circulation of over 1 billion 300 million copies. During this period, 528 authors appeared in Roman-gazeta, of which 434 were Soviet writers and 94 were foreign. Published 440 novels, 380 stories and 12 poems.
The design of the magazine changed several times, there were at least 5 different types of cover.
In early 1986, the monthly circulation of the magazine reached 1.9 million copies.

1939 - №5
1940 - №11
1942 - №1/2
1950 - №11,12
1952 - №1,2,4,5,6,9,10,12
1953 - №3,4,5,7,8,9
1954 - №1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
1956 - №2
1958 - №2,4,5,9,10,11,12,17,18,21,22,23,24
1959 - №1,2/3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,13,14,15,16,19,24
1960 - №3,5,6,9/10,14,15,19,20,21,23,24
1961 - №2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18/19,20,21,23,24
1962 - №1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21/22,23,24
1963 - №3,4,5,6,7,8,12,13,14,15,16,17,19,20,21,22,23,24
1964 - No. 1-24 (all numbers)
1965 - №1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,16,19,21,23,24
1966 - №1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,23,24
1967 - №1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,17,18,22
1968 - №1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,22,23,24
1969 - №1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,23
1970 - №18,21/22
1971 - №3,5,6,7,8,11,12,14
1972 - №2,7,11,24
1973 - №3,22,24
1974 - №4,8,9,10,12,13,18,19,22
1975 - №4,9,10,12,14,15,16,17,21,22,24
1976 - №11,15,18,19,20,21,22
1977 - №3,4,6,8,12
1978 - №6,10,11,17,20
1979 - №1,4,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,17,19/20,22,23,24
1980 - №4,5,6,8,10,12,14,15,17,21,22,23/24
1981 - №1,2,5,6,11,12,13,14,19
1982 - №12,20,21/22
1983 - №4,7,18,19,20/21,22,23
1984 - №4,5,9,14,15/16,17,19,23
1985 - №1,2,3,4,7,8,10/11,16,17,20,21
1986 - №7,8,14,15,17,18,
1987 - №1,2,6,7,9,10,13,14,18,19,21,22/23,24
1988 - №4,9,10,11/12,19,20,22,23/24
1989 - №5,6,7,9/10,11,12,13/14,17,18,20
1990 - №13,15,16
1991 - №13,14,15,17,18
1993 - №4

31
mar
2014

Newspaper (Korneshov Lev)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 96 kbps
Author: Korneshov Lev
Release year: 2010
Genre: Detective
Publisher: You can't buy anywhere
Artist: Shumskaya Galina
Duration: 16:33:22
Description: A major Moscow newspaper falls under the control of an oligarch. Journalists are forced to figure out `where are theirs and where are strangers`, and decide how to live on, so as not to exchange the `second oldest profession` for the first ...
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Digitized by: yuriy12
Cleaned up: Sapozhnikov Misha

30
dec
2012

Forest newspaper (Vitaly Bianchi)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 128kbps
Author: Vitaly Bianchi
Release year: 2012
Genre: children's literature, stories about nature
Publisher: You can't buy anywhere
Artist: Vladimir Sushkov
Duration: 16:01:43
Description: "Forest Newspaper" by the remarkable Russian writer-naturalist Vitaly Bianki is a desktop calendar of nature for independent observations throughout the year. Everything here is like in an ordinary newspaper: notes, telegrams, announcements, stories. Only they write in them not about people, but about birds, animals and insects - after all, there are no less incidents in the forest than in the city.

30
Jan
2009

How a newspaper is made

ISBN: 5-88044-089-3

Release year: 1998
Author: Nyrkova L.M.
Genre: practical guide
Publisher: Gandalf
Number of pages: 68
Description: This manual is intended primarily for students of faculties, departments of journalism who have chosen newspaper design as their specialization and are starting to master its basics. However, we express the hope that some aspects of the topics discussed in the manual may be useful for deepening previously acquired knowledge and improving skills.

16
aug
2012

Computer newspaper Hard Soft (file)

Format: PDF (scanned pages)
Year of issue: 2011-2013
Genre: Computer magazine

Russian language
Number of pages: 40-44
Description: Computer newspaper Hard Soft is a glossy magazine published twice a month. The magazine contains reviews of the latest: computer hardware, mobile communications, multimedia devices, software, Internet services, games. List of numbers 2011: No. 07-14 (220-227) 2012: No. 01-14 (228-241) 2013: No. 01-05 (242-246) The distribution was updated on 19.05.13. Added №05 (246) 2013

27
june
2018

Newspaper Pravda (25479 issues) (Organ of the Central Committee and Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.)

Author: Organ of the Central Committee and Moscow Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
Year of issue: 1918-1991
Genre: Newspaper
Publisher: Publishing house and printing house of the newspaper "Pravda" them. I. V. Stalin
Russian language
Number of pages: ≈150000
Description: The numbers are taken from the electronic archive of East View Information Services, Inc. This distribution contains issues of the newspaper "Pravda" for the period from January 1, 1918 to December 31, 1991 (74 years). Screenshots

05
june
2010

Newspaper "Garden-garden" No. 7

Format: PDF, scanned pages
Release year: 2010
Genre: newspaper for summer residents

Russian language
Number of pages: 24
Description: Newspaper for summer residents. Published since 1994. Distributed in the Volgograd, Astrakhan, Rostov, Voronezh, Saratov regions, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions. Article and recommendations on horticulture, viticulture, horticulture and floriculture for the southern regions of Russia.

19
mar
2013

Computer newspaper Hard Soft

Format: ISO
Year of issue: 2012-2013
Genre: Magazine Supplement CD
Publisher: Golden Collection
Russian language
Number of disks: 11
Description: Computer newspaper Hard Soft is a glossy magazine published twice a month. The magazine contains reviews of the latest: computer hardware, mobile communications, multimedia devices, software, Internet services, games. List of disks2012: №2, 5-7, 9-14 2013: №1Contents of disks2012№02New versions of popular programs AkelPad 4.7.3 FotoMorph 13.4.4 HWiNFO32 3.93-1530 ICE Book Reader Professional 9.0.8a Internet Download Accelerato ...

06
june
2010

Newspaper Garden-garden №8

Format: PDF, scanned pages
Release year: 2010
Genre: newspaper for summer residents
Publisher: Publishing house "Sad-garden"
Russian language
Number of pages: 24
Description: Newspaper for summer residents. Published since 1994. Distributed in the Volgograd, Astrakhan, Rostov, Voronezh, Saratov regions, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions. Articles and recommendations on gardening, viticulture, horticulture and floriculture for the southern regions of Russia.
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26
May
2016

A Romance with a Stone 01. A Romance of a Stone (Francis Edgar)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 96 Kbps
Author: Francis Edgar
Release year: 2016
Genre: Adventure novel
Publisher: You can't buy anywhere
Artist: Yurova Larisa
Duration: 05:42:15
Description: Joan Wilder, author of popular women's novels, finds in her mailbox a package sent from Colombia by her sister. A phone call confirms her worst fears - her sister has been kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand the return of the package. Forgetting everything in the world, Joan flies to help her sister and gets lost in the first hours after arrival. They try to kill her, and only the intervention of Jack Colton, an American mercenary, ...

03
june
2014

The last newspaper (book 1 of 3) (Nikolai Klimontovich)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 96kbps
Author: Nikolai Klimontovich
Release year: 2011
Genre: Modern prose
Publisher: You can't buy anywhere
Artist: Laura Eremina
Duration: 04:33:24
Description: The heroes of this book are the "superfluous people" of today's life. What are they thinking, what are they experiencing? Probably what the classic characters of Russian literature experienced: the incompleteness of being, tragic unbelief, the inability to find oneself, the thirst for love and purification. The piercingly described state of mind of these "superfluous people" is unlikely to find a way out in modern reality. In `The Last Newspaper` the grown-up hero became...

29
Apr
2008

Type: audio play
Genre: novel
Author: M.A. Bulgakov
Artist: Oleg Tabakov, Julia Rutberg, Maxim Sukhanov
Publisher: Radio "Culture"
Audio: MP3 audio_bitrate: 192
Description: The name "Theatrical novel" defines the main content of the work - the novel of the protagonist, playwright Maksudov, with the Independent Theater, and the novel as a literary creation dedicated to the theatrical world and remaining in the posthumous notes of the playwright who committed suicide. The plot of the "Theatrical Novel" was largely based on Bulgakov's conflict with the chief director of the Art Theater K.S. Stanislavsky (1863-193 ...

31
mar
2011

Radiomir (22 rooms)

Format: DjVu, PDF, Scanned pages
Year of release: 2009-2011
Genre: Radio engineering magazine
Publisher: NTK Radiomir
Russian language
Number of rooms: 22
Description: "Radiomir" is a monthly popular magazine on electronic components and circuitry for radio amateurs, radio enthusiasts and professionals. Competitions, equipment and equipment, antennas, reference material - this is all on amateur radio topics.
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17
aug
2016

Latinoparaiso (283 rooms)

Format: PDF, Scanned pages
Year of release: 2011-2016
Genre: film review
Publisher: Russia, Internet - edition
Russian language
Number of pages: 283 x ~ 20 - 130
Description: "Latinoparaiso" is the first and only online magazine created in Russia dedicated to Latin American serials. In each issue of the magazine, you will discover the latest and current TV series news, interviews with actors, episode summaries, posters and much more from the world of the Latin TV series industry. In each issue, any reader of Latin culture, and in particular serials, will find a rubric to their liking. Content...

Add. Information: To view the *.pdf format magazine, it is recommended to use the program ...

Exactly 90 years ago - on July 9, 1927 - the first issue of the Roman-newspaper was published. Thus, the idea of ​​​​Lenin and Gorky about the need to publish a “cheap book” for the people came to life. With its content, design, spirit and style, for nine decades this magazine, like a mirror, reflected the fate of the country.

Over the years of the journal’s existence, thousands of famous writers have become its authors - it has become the “gateway” through which Sholokhov, Alexei Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn came to the general reader ... More than 700 authors have appeared in the journal, about 1200 novels, short stories, short stories, fiction and documentary works have been published , as well as 13 poetry collections. And today, all significant works of Russian literature continue to be published in the most massive literary publication in Russia - the magazine "Roman-gazeta".

Maxim Gorky, who lived in Italy in those years, but closely followed the young Soviet literature, took an active part in the creation of the journal. Having even pre-revolutionary experience in publishing "cheap books for the people," Gorky insisted that "Roman-gazeta" be a state project. He saw the task of the new magazine, first of all, in familiarizing the people with the best works of domestic and world literature. Around the "Roman-newspaper", according to Gorky, talented Soviet writers should have united. A large circulation of the magazine, an effective distribution system immediately turned the "Roman-newspaper" into the most popular in the country and a truly "people's" publication.

In the first - debut - issue of "Roman-gazeta" was published a novel by the progressive German writer Johannes Becher "The Coming War".

In 1927-1930, Roman-gazeta published Gorky's new works The Artamonov Case, Childhood, My Universities, In People. The humanistic tradition of Russian literature is confirmed by Chekhov's collection of short stories, L. Tolstoy's story "The Cossacks". Soviet writers of the "older" generation are being published: A. Serafimovich, A. Novikov-Priboy. The new Soviet literature is represented by such names and works as: M. Sholokhov "Don stories", the first books of the "Quiet Don"; A. Fadeev "The Last of the Udege"; D. Furmanov "Chapaev", "Mutiny" ... Poetry is not forgotten either. The collection "Poetry of the Revolution" contains poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Sergei Yesenin, Valery Bryusov, Boris Pasternak, Alexei Surkov, Mikhail Isakovsky ...

No less striking is the choice for Roman-gazeta of foreign authors: Ethel Lilian Voynich "The Gadfly", Bruno Traven "Ship of Death", Erich Maria Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front", Yaroslav Gashek "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik".

In 1927–1930, Roman-gazeta entered the format in which (with forced but short breaks) it will remain to this day: two issues per month, 24 issues per year. By the beginning of the 1930s, the magazine became one of the most popular in the country. Issues of "Roman-gazeta" go to all libraries of the country, are sold at the post office and in street kiosks.

The beginning of the 1930s was a time of unprecedented labor enthusiasm of the Soviet people, the rapid development of industry. It is no coincidence that the hero of the works of Soviet literature of that time becomes a working man, who has a new attitude to work. On the pages of "Roman-gazeta" in these years, many works are published, filled with the pathos of collective labor, exploring the conflict between the personal and the public in the human soul. These are the novels "Hundred" by L. Leonov, "New Earth" by F. Gladkov, "Major Repair" by L. Sobolev...

The threat of an approaching war and the coming to power of Hitler in Germany determined the publication in the "Roman-gazeta" of such works as "A Man Changes His Skin" by B. Yasensky, "The Abduction of Europe" by K. Fedin, "The Yew Is Burning" by B. Illesh. These works develop the theme of the historical doom of the bourgeois world, the moral degradation of Western society, and the inevitability of social revolutions.

The second half of the 1930s - the time of the so-called "great terror" - is one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in the history of the USSR. The "great terror" did not bypass Soviet literature either. Some writers were shot, others were sent to prison and exile. Not the best fate awaited those who returned in these years to the USSR from emigration. Some "engineers of human souls" had to brand others at meetings and in the press, declared "enemies of the people." Most did it by force, but some showed excessive zeal.

At this time, a number of works were published on the pages of Roman-gazeta, which later became classics of Soviet literature: “The Road to the Ocean” by L. Leonov, “The lonely sail turns white” by V. Kataev, “How the steel was tempered” and “Born by the Storm” by N. Ostrovsky, "Tanker Derbent" by Y. Krymov, "One-story America" ​​by Ilf and Petrov.

You can pay attention to the fact that almost every year the "Roman-gazeta" publishes voluminous works by V. Grossman ("Glyukauf", "Stepan Kolchugin") and I. Ehrenburg ("Without taking a breath", "What a person needs"). Subsequently, both of these authors were in the forefront of the fighters against Stalinism. Grossman wrote the "dissident" novel "Life and Fate", and the title of Ehrenburg's story "The Thaw" still characterizes the era of Khrushchev's "relaxations" in the public life of the country.

The end of the 30s. Despite the "sworn friendship" with Germany, the country lived in anticipation of a big war. This could not but affect the literary process. On the pages of "Roman-gazeta" in 1939, works are published that glorify the courage of the Soviet people, their readiness to defend the Motherland to the last drop of blood. These are “Notes of a Navigator” by the famous pilot M. Raskova, G. Baidukov’s memoirs “About Chkalov”, N. Virta’s novel “Regularity”, N. Shpanov’s political pamphlet “The First Strike. A story about a future war. To fight, however, according to the then ideological doctrine was supposed to be "little bloodshed" and "on foreign territory."

The Great Patriotic War began. Many authors of "Roman-gazeta" - well-known Soviet writers - worked during the war years as war correspondents. Their impressions of what they saw and experienced at the fronts were subsequently reflected both in epic works about the Great Patriotic War and in the so-called "trench", "lieutenant" prose.

In 1941, six issues of the Roman-newspaper were published. The novel by the American writer D. Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath" - a chronicle of the Great Depression - is published in three issues. The novels of V. Grossman "Soldiers of the Revolution" and N. Bobrov "Chkalov" have time to come out.

In 1942, despite all the difficulties, six issues of the Roman-newspaper were also published: the historical works of M. Bragin "Commander Kutuzov", S. Borodin "Dmitry Donskoy", the novel by I. Ehrenburg "The Fall of Paris".

The next issues of "Roman-newspaper" will be published only in 1946. The first three issues featured Alexander Fadeev's novel The Young Guard about Komsomol heroes who fought against the Nazis in the occupied territory. In the same year, another outstanding work was published on the pages of the magazine, which entered the history of Russian literature - Alexander Tvardovsky's poem “Vasily Terkin. A book about a fighter.

In 1947, Roman-Gazeta published the journalistic novel The Word Before the Execution, which later became a classic of world anti-fascist literature, by the Czech journalist J. Fuchik, in later translations - Report with a noose around his neck.

The political uncertainty of 1949-1953 could not but affect the quality of the works published in Roman-gazeta and other central journals. The struggle against "cosmopolitanism" and "killer doctors" was gaining momentum in the country. A resolution of the Central Committee on the magazines "Zvezda" and "Leningrad" was issued, in which not only the works of Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko, but also their political views, were subjected to devastating criticism. Therefore, the editors and writers "blew on the water", with all their might demonstrated loyalty to the ideals of the party. Such “loyal” works that explore the conflicts between “good” and “best” include the novels by A. Fedorov “The Underground Regional Committee Operates”, A. Voloshin “Kuznetskaya Land”, S. Babaevsky “Light Above the Earth”, M. Ibragimov “The Coming day”, V. Ilyenkov “Big Road”, G. Nikolaeva “Harvest”, M. Bubennova “White Birch”, V. Kochetov “Zhurbiny”.

At the same time, Roman-gazeta began to publish authors who would work in Soviet literature for many years. They will enter the governing bodies of the Writers' Union of the USSR and head magazines and publishing houses. Among them: Vitaly Zakrutkin, Mikhail Alekseev, Nikolai Shundik, Mikhail Stelmakh.

In March 1953, Stalin died, Lavrenty Beria was shot. The same fate awaited many employees of the NKVD and the MGB, who were overly zealous in carrying out the "criminal orders" of their superiors. The "killer doctors" were acquitted, and the campaign to combat "cosmopolitanism" and "servile worship of the West" was curtailed. A new era began.

Nevertheless, the ideological "machine" continued to function properly. Any attempts to "retreat" from the party line met with a rebuff, but, as a rule, without the "organizational conclusions" that were obligatory in the old days. The first to test the new reality for strength was Ilya Ehrenburg, who published the story under the meaningful title "The Thaw". The story was scolded in the press, but the ice was broken. Writers have become bolder.

During these years, Roman-gazeta published works that entered the history of Soviet literature, both because of their artistic persuasiveness and their impact on society. The first include P. Nilin's stories "Cruelty" and "Probationary Period", D. Granin's novel "Searchers", V. Tendryakov's stories "Among the Forests" and "A Tight Knot", V. Panova's novel "The Seasons". To the second - essays by V. Ovechkin "District everyday life", which caused a heated discussion and laid the foundation for the "village" direction in Soviet journalism. This direction will become one of the main ones for the Novy Mir magazine during the time of Tvardovsky's editorship.

The number of foreign authors in the journal has significantly increased. Translations appeared on the pages of Roman-gazeta: D. Aldridge's The Hunter, L. Feuchtwanger's The Lautenzack Brothers, A. Lanu's Major Watren.

In 1956, the historical 20th Congress of the CPSU was held, at a closed meeting of which N. Khrushchev made a report on Stalin's personality cult. The country was on the rise.

In literature, “universal” themes in their “Soviet” understanding are beginning to sound more and more strongly. The heroes begin to think about previously forbidden things - about the fact that some bosses "got stuck", about the mistakes made in the first months of the war, about the difficult fate of children whose parents were repressed. The novels of A. Rybakov "Ekaterina Voronina", E. Kazakevich's "The House on the Square", A. Beck's "Life of Berezhkov" published in "Roman-gazeta" enjoy great popularity among readers.

During the years of Khrushchev's "thaw", Soviet literature was gradually freed from the harsh ideological dictates. This was largely facilitated by literary criticism, which significantly expanded the "horizons" of discussions. The circulation of "Roman-newspaper" is increasing every year. The journal presents all areas of Soviet literature. In 1959, on the pages of Roman-gazeta, chapters from M. Sholokhov’s novel “They Fought for the Motherland” were published, and the next year, the second book of “Virgin Soil Upturned” was published.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a galaxy of young talented writers entered literature, reflecting in their works the realities of the new time, touching on a number of serious issues in their works. The “Roman-gazeta” published the memoirs of O. Bergholz “Daytime Stars”, the fantastic novel “The Andromeda Nebula” by I. Efremov, and the poem “Beyond the Distance” by A. Tvardovsky. Of the foreign translations, it should be noted the novels by D. Aldridge “I don’t want him to die”, A. Style “We will love each other tomorrow” and “Collapse”, A. Kronin “Northern Light”.

In the 1960s, Soviet literature experienced a real flowering. And although, at meetings with the creative intelligentsia, Khrushchev sharply scolded artists, branded Pasternak, insulted the poets Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, declared that he was a Stalinist in matters of culture, many writers already worked without regard to censorship and instructions from the party authorities.

A real sensation was the publication of A. Solzhenitsyn's story "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". In 1963, this work, nominated for the Lenin Prize, was published in Roman-gazeta. The "camp" theme was also touched upon in other stories and novels published in those years in the magazine: S. Voronina - "Two Lives", V. Bykov - "The Third Rocket", P. Nilina - "Through the Cemetery", Y. Bondareva - "Silence".

A new generation of writers confidently entered literature. Soon, many members of this generation will occupy commanding positions in writers' organizations, and their works will be called "secretary" prose. But for the time being, their prose is read with pleasure, literary evenings and reader conferences are organized based on their works. Roman-gazeta publishes novels: “Tanks move in a rhombus” A. Ananyeva, "The Light of a Distant Star" A. Chakovsky, "Father and Son" G. Markova, "Soldiers are not born" K. Simonova, "Shadows disappear at noon" A. Ivanova, "Shield and Sword" V. Kozhevnikova, "Bitter Herbs" P. Proskurin ... Based on the novels by V. Kozhevnikov and A. Ivanov, the first television series were later filmed, which were watched by the whole country.

Other authors of Roman-gazeta devoted their works to the spiritual quest of young scientists, engineers, officers, representatives of the creative intelligentsia: D. Granin - "I'm going into a thunderstorm", Y. Trifonov - "Quenching my thirst", S. Baruzdin - "Repetition of the past" , A. Kron - "House and ship".

The circulation of "Roman-newspaper" is increasing every year. The journal acquaints readers with practically all the works of Soviet writers of public interest. At the same time, when selecting authors and compiling publishing plans, the editorial board begins to “tilt” in the direction of “writers-bosses” - leaders of writers' unions and editors-in-chief of “thick” magazines. And although the literary life in the country is in full swing, the seeds of "stagnation" are gradually germinating in the "field" of Soviet culture.

Late 60s. The ideological "clamp" within the country is intensifying. By this time, the Soviet reader had become acquainted with the works of E. Hemingway, J. Salinger, and many other popular foreign authors. Young Soviet writers - V. Aksyonov, A. Gladilin and others - use in their work the techniques of the so-called "confessional" prose. The circulation of the magazines "Youth" and "New World" is growing.

At this time, Solzhenitsyn finally switched to anti-Soviet positions. His long-term confrontation with the authorities begins. In Soviet society, a layer of "dissidents" is formed, with whom the KGB "works" closely. Some of them are forced to repent, some are sent to camps, some are sent into exile. It was then that Joseph Brodsky, the future Nobel Prize winner in literature, became widely known.

In 1966-1969, Roman-Gazeta published outstanding works by writers from the national republics: N. Dumbadze's "I See the Sun", "Mother's Field" and "Farewell, Gulsary!" Ch. Aitmatova, "Village at the Crossroads" Y. Avizhyus, finally, "My Dagestan" by R. Gamzatov. They rightfully entered the treasury of Soviet literature.

The circulation of "Roman-newspaper" reaches one million copies. The journal publishes almost all works awarded with Lenin and State Prizes in Literature. Many readers throughout the country collect the edition's binders by year. By this time, the image of the magazine was taking shape, which would be preserved almost until the very end of the Soviet era: a plain cover with a photograph of the author and the title of the work.

During the years of the so-called "stagnation" on the pages of "Roman-gazeta" many worthy works of Soviet writers are published: the story "The Last Bow" by V. Astafyev, the novels by K. Simonov - "Last Summer" and "Twenty Days Without War", a novel by a Lithuanian prose writer J. Avizhius "Lost shelter", V. Bykov's stories "Survive until dawn" and "Obelisk", G. Troepolsky's story "White Bim Black Ear". Of the translated prose, one can note the novel by Z. Lenz "The German Lesson", the novels by F. Fuman, the novel by D. Cusack "The Sun is not Everything".

1974-1977 - the time of the formation and flourishing of "developed" socialism. These are the years of construction of BAM, Atommash, cascades of hydroelectric power plants in Central Asia, and many other “Komsomol-youth” construction projects. At the same time, the outwardly mighty and unshakable Soviet system is gradually sinking into the deepest internal crisis. The oppressive atmosphere of stagnation, commodity shortages, corruption, an insurmountable gap between the proclaimed slogans and the realities of everyday life is reflected in literature.

These years, "Roman-gazeta" publishes such "luminaries" of Soviet literature as: G. Markov - "Siberia", V. Kozhevnikov - "At noon on the sunny side", A. Ananiev - "Miles of Love", Sh. Rashidov - "Winners", M. Alekseev - "Weeping Willow", I. Stadnyuk - "War", S. Babaevsky - "The Village", A. Chakovsky - "Blockade". Most of these authors work in the epic genre, receiving State and other awards, both for individual parts of their works and at the end of them.

But other writers are popular with readers. They, too, albeit with difficulty, but get on the pages of "Roman-newspaper", become, thanks to the millions of copies of the magazine, known throughout the country. These are: O. Kuvaev - "Territory", O. Kozhukhova - "Two deaths will not happen", V. Bykov - "Wolf pack", V. Shukshin - stories, V. Peskov - "Roads and paths", S. Zalygin " Commission", V. Astafiev - "Tsar-fish", Y. Kazakov - "Long screams", E. Nosov - "Usvyatsky helmet-bearers", Ch. Aitmatov - "Spotted dog running along the edge of the sea", V. Chivilikhin - "Swedish stops." Many of the listed writers will become regular contributors to the magazine and will continue to collaborate with Roman-gazeta even in modern times.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the circulation of Roman-newspaper exceeded three million copies. The magazine becomes a truly "people's" publication. Such works published on the pages of "Roman-gazeta" as "The Eternal Call" by A. Ivanov, "Your Name" by P. Proskurin, "Live and Remember" by V. Rasputin, the novels "House" by F. Abramov and "Last Bow" by V. Astafiev.

A real bestseller of that time was Yulian Semyonov's novel "TASS is authorized to declare ...", published in Roman-gazeta in 1980. Later, a serial film will be made on it, where V. Solomin and V. Kikabidze will play the main roles.

In 1982–1985, the pages of Roman-gazeta published authors who later became one of the most widely read and popular in Russia. These are V. Pikul (the novel "Requiem for the Caravan PQ17"), D. Balashov (the novel "The Burden of Power"), V. Chivilikhin (the novel-essay "Memory"). The historical research of V. Chivilikhin met with an enthusiastic reception from the patriotic part of society and - no less energetic rejection from those who, on the one hand, remained faithful to Marxist dogmas, and on the other, treated Russia as an initially backward country - "a prison of peoples and the bulwark of all reaction.

In the same years, V. Lichutin (the story "The Winged Seraphim") and A. Prokhanov (the novel "A Tree in the Center of Kabul") became the authors of the journal. Roman-gazeta will then publish many works by these talented writers.

The issues of the magazine with the prose of Ch. Aitmatov - "Stormy Stop", Yu. Slepukhin - "Southern Cross", P. Proskurin - "Black Birds", V. Shugaev - "The Arithmetic of Love", Yu. Nagibina - “Road Accident”, A. Ivanova - “The Tale of Unfulfilled Love”, V. Rasputin - “Live a Century - Love a Century”, F. Abramova - “Grass-Ant”, V. Krupin - “Living Water”.

Such writers as A. Prokhanov, V. Lichutin, A. Ivanov, V. Rasputin, D. Balashov, V. Chivilikhin, V. Pikul in the following "troubled times" consistently opposed the indiscriminate denigration of the Soviet period, actively participated in civil opposition "policy of reforms" ruining the population of the country. V. Korotich and E. Yevtushenko, who actively collaborated with the Soviet authorities, became the "foremen of perestroika."

In 1985, the country entered a new era - the era of perestroika. Readers are beginning to return to the works of authors previously banned for ideological reasons, mainly by emigrants of the “first wave”. The circulation of "thick" literary magazines is increasing many times over. Writers are in a hurry to tell the truth about the "painful".

During these years, many historical novels were published on the pages of Roman-gazeta. V. Pikul, D. Balashov, Yu. Loshchits, V. Likhonosov, V. Belov, S. Alekseev, S. Semanov, B. Mozhaev are trying to find the answer to the question in the distant and recent past of Russia: what will happen to the country?

In 1987, the magazine published two works that caused a heated discussion in society: the novels of V. Belov - "Everything is ahead" and V. Astafiev - "The Sad Detective". V. Astafiev reflected in his work the deep apathy of the people, tired of many years of injustice perpetrated by an unjust government. V. Belov - doubted that the Soviet intelligentsia, both patriotic and democratic orientation, is able to take responsibility for the fate of the country.

Ch. Aitmatov's novel "The Block" aroused great interest among readers, where, perhaps, for the first time in Soviet literature, the topic of drug addiction was touched upon. The oldest Soviet writer L. Leonov appeared on the pages of the magazine with essays "Reflections at the Old Stone". However, his thoughts, like the novel "Pyramid" later, remained incomprehensible to readers.

The undoubted successes of the magazine include the publication of a series of historical novels by V. Pikul - "Cruiser", "Favorite", "Katorga". These works contributed to the growth of the circulation of Roman-newspaper, which in those years reached almost four million copies. By the way, they are still popular today and are regularly reprinted.

D. Granin, very sensitive to the trends of the times, publishes on the pages of the magazine the novel "Zubr" - a fictional biography of the famous Russian geneticist Timofeev-Ressovsky, known not only for his scientific achievements, but also for his forced cooperation with the authorities of the Third Reich. Granin carefully makes it clear that circumstances sometimes turned out to be stronger than people, therefore, not all citizens who collaborated with the Germans during the war years were complete traitors and scoundrels.

In 1989, the "cult" novel of the perestroika period "Children of the Arbat" by A. Rybakov was published in "Roman-gazeta". Now many researchers of literature are perplexed why this particular work, and not, say, O. Volkov’s “Immersion in Darkness”, or N. Golovkina’s (Rimskaya-Korsakova’s) The Defeated, received such a significant response in society. Apparently, this is due to the fact that the mentality of the majority of readers at that time was still "Soviet". Therefore, A. Rybakov, an adherent of classical socialist realism, turned out to be more understandable to the people than the Russian "White Guards" O. Volkov and N. Golovkina.

In general, it should be recognized that these were "golden" years for publishers and readers. Society eagerly followed all the novelties of literature, and publishers still existed in the "Soviet" world, where the price of paper was minimal, utility bills were symbolic, distribution of millions of copies across the country was practically free. But this "golden" time did not last long. The USSR had less than two years to live...

1990-1992 years. The mediocre attempt to return the country to control, undertaken by the so-called GKChP, finally turned the people away from the existing government. The time has come for the "young reformers".

It is symbolic that in the December 1991 issues of Roman-gazeta, the publication of the novel “August the Fourteenth”, a long-term merciless critic of the Soviet system A. Solzhenitsyn, began to be published. Solzhenitsyn should be given his due, he quickly realized the depth of the abyss into which post-Soviet Russia had fallen, and, despite being close to power, he began to critique the policy of “reforms and democratization” in a convincing manner.

With the collapse of the state, the "market" came to the publishing business. No one else helped the newspapers and magazines, and they survived as best they could. Printing products were still affordable for readers, so the editors willingly printed literature that was previously “forbidden” for ideological reasons, as well as foreign detective stories and “erotic” prose that had never been seen before in the USSR. But the reader quickly became disillusioned with this kind of "novelties", especially since, due to cost savings, the translations were illiterate, and the printing execution was ugly.

During these years, the “thick” literary journals were finally demarcated into “democratic” and “patriotic”. The former receive grants under Soros programs, subsidies from the authorities. The second - left to themselves. "Roman-gazeta" in these years occupies a worthy place among the patriotic publications that remain true to the best traditions of Russian literature.

In 1990-1992, the magazine published a wonderful biographical prose by the oldest Russian writer O. Volkov "Immersion in Darkness". The novel “The Defeated” by I. Golovkina (Rimskaya-Korsakova), previously unknown to readers, became a real sensation. However, the "White Guard Russian truth" about the post-revolutionary Soviet reality did not arouse enthusiasm among the so-called market "elite", which determined the literary tastes of power during the years of Yeltsin's rule. But the novel by I. Golovkina, as well as the publication of the novel by V. Uspensky “The Privy Councilor to the Leader”, which began in 1991, were met with great interest by the readers of “Roman-gazeta” throughout Russia.

To attract new subscribers on the pages of "Roman-gazeta" there are collections of foreign fiction "Spouses who loved solitude", the epic novel by the American writer M. Mitchell "Gone with the Wind", the detective novel by D. Chase "The Borgia Ring" and stories by Agatha Christie.

In 1993, the magazine published the story of the last political prisoner in the USSR - the writer L. Borodin "Godfield". L. Borodin became a regular contributor to Roman-gazeta and was on the editorial board of the journal until his death.

It should also be noted the publication of the novel "Summer of the Lord" - a classic of Russian literature, an emigrant of the "first wave" Ivan Shmelev, as well as the novel by the Russian American N. Fedorova "Family". The editors did not forget the remarkable Russian poet Nikolai Rubtsov. An issue of the magazine was dedicated to his poems and memories of him in 1993.

In the troubled times of the first "democratic" years of the new Russia, Roman-gazeta published an essay by the Ukrainian poet Boris Oleinik "Prince of Darkness" - about the place in the history of the country of Gorbachev.

Thus, almost the entire spectrum of patriotic literature was presented on the pages of the magazine. But this did not mean at all that the doors to the editorial office were closed to writers holding other political views. In "Roman-gazeta" were published: D. Volkogonov - "Triumph and tragedy", Yu. Semenov - "Expansion", A. Rybakov - "Thirty-fifth and other years." This was clear evidence that when drawing up publishing plans, the main criteria for the editors were the talent of the author and the artistic viability of his work.

In 1998-2001, many works appeared on the pages of Roman-gazeta, the authors of which tried to comprehend in an artistic form what happened to the country, determine the depth of the national tragedy, and offer their own options for the revival of Russia. These are the novels of P. Proskurin - “I will repay, Lord!” and “The Number of the Beast”, A. Afanasyev - “Zone Number Three”, “Horror in the City”, “Requiem for the Brotherhood”, Y. Bondareva - “Bermuda Triangle”, V. Maksimova - “Look into the Abyss”.

The first "Chechen war" was devoted to A. Prokhanov's novels - "Chechen Blues" and "Walking in the Night", N. Ivanov's documentary prose - "Entry into captivity is free, or Shoot in November", "Cleaners", "Special Forces, which is not will return."

A. Solzhenitsyn "noted" in the journal "veteran" of the struggle against "totalitarianism" with a collection of journalism of different years. However, by this time he had already revised his previous views in many respects, having come out with a sensational article “Russia in a collapse”.

Russian literature was finally divided into “folk”, eking out a miserable existence in the provinces, and “elitist”, which filled the shelves of bookstores and the pages of “glamorous” publications. Difficult times have come for magazines that focus on "folk" literature, for Roman-gazeta, Our Contemporary, Moskva, for miraculously preserved local literary magazines and almanacs.

It was during these years that such vivid works as “Mr. Hexogen” by A. Prokhanov, “Milady Rotman” by V. Lichutin, “Citizen of Darkness” and “In the Service of the Oligarch” by A. Afanasyev were published on the pages of Roman-gazeta, “ The Sky of the Fallen” and “Demgorodok” by Y. Polyakov, “Champagne Splashes” and “Voroshilov Shooter” by V. Pronin.

By this time, the fundamental position of the magazine had finally formed: to publish the best works of Russian authors, taking into account the widest range of readers' interests. The journal publishes works by writers who are the honor and pride of national Russian literature: “Zatesi” and “The Flying Goose” by V. Astafiev, “Mozdok Notebook” by V. Belov, “Greek Bread” and “The Ring Has Dropped” by E. Nosov, “Besivo” L. Borodina, "Ivan's daughter, Ivan's mother" by V. Rasputin.

Readers and subscribers of "Roman-gazeta", like the vast majority of ordinary people in Russia, sought to understand what happened to their homeland - the USSR? They tried to find answers to their questions in the works published in the magazine, and the authors of Roman-gazeta shared their thoughts about the past, present and future of the country. In 2002-2005, the magazine published the prose of Z. Prilepin - "Pathology", R. Senchin - "Nubuk", E. Shishkin - "The Crucified Soul" and "The Law of Preservation of Love", V. Degtev - "The ABC of Survival", E. Sazanovich - "Unexpected melody of the night."

"Roman-gazeta" rightly calls itself "the last soldier of literature for the people." But literature, the living word, exists as long as they have readers and connoisseurs. The magazine believes in its readers - the romance of man and book will last forever.