Roman newspaper official magazine. "Roman-newspaper": history of the country, history of the magazine

On July 9, 1927, the first issue of Roman Newspaper was published. This is how Lenin and Gorky’s idea of the need to publish a “cheap book” for the people came to life. With its content, design, spirit and style, this magazine, like a mirror, reflected the fate of the country for nine decades.

Over the years of the magazine’s existence, thousands of famous writers became its authors - it became the “gate” through which Sholokhov, Alexei Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn reached the mass reader... More than 700 authors appeared in the magazine, about 1,200 novels, novellas, short stories, artistic and non-fiction works were published , as well as 13 collections of poetry. And today, all significant works of Russian literature continue to be published in the most popular literary publication in Russia - the Roman-Gazeta magazine.

Maxim Gorky, who lived in Italy in those years but closely followed young Soviet literature, took an active part in the creation of the magazine. Having 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 introducing the people to the best works of domestic and world literature. According to Gorky, talented Soviet writers were supposed to unite around the Roman Newspaper. The magazine's large circulation and effective distribution system immediately turned Roman-Gazeta into the most popular and truly “people's” publication in the country.

In the first – debut – issue of the “Roman-newspaper” the novel “The Coming War” by the progressive German writer Johannes Becher was published.

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 the collection of stories by Chekhov and the story “Cossacks” by L. Tolstoy. Soviet writers of the “older” generation are published: A. Serafimovich, A. Novikov-Priboy. New Soviet literature is represented by such names and works as: M. Sholokhov “Don Stories”, the first books of “Quiet Don”; A. Fadeev “The Last of the Udege”; D. Furmanov “Chapaev”, “Mutiny”... Poetry has not been 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 of foreign authors for the “Roman-Gazeta”: Ethel Lilian Voynich “The Gadfly”, Bruno Traven “The Death Ship”, Erich Maria Remarque “All Quiet on the Western Front”, Jaroslav Hasek “The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik”.

In 1927–1930, Roman-Gazeta adopted a format in which (with forced, but short-lived interruptions) it will remain to this day: two issues per month, 24 issues per year. By the beginning of the 30s, the magazine became one of the most circulated in the country. Issues of the Roman Newspaper are supplied to all libraries in the country and are sold at post offices and street kiosks.

The beginning of the 1930s was a time of unprecedented labor enthusiasm of the Soviet people and rapid development of industry. It is no coincidence that the hero of the works of Soviet literature of that time is the working man, who has a new attitude towards work. During these years, the pages of Roman-Gazeta published many works filled with the pathos of collective work, exploring the conflict between the personal and the social in the human soul. These are the novels “Sot” by L. Leonov, “New Land” by F. Gladkov, “Major Repairs” by L. Sobolev...

The threat of an approaching war and Hitler’s rise to power in Germany determined the publication in Roman-Gazeta of such works as “A Man Changes His Skin” by B. Yasensky, “The Rape of Europe” by K. Fedin, and “Yew is Burning” by B. Illesch. 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 30s – the time of the so-called “Great Terror” – was 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 a better fate awaited those who returned to the USSR from emigration during these years. Some “engineers of human souls” had to brand others, declared “enemies of the people,” at meetings and in the press. Most did this forcedly, 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 Whitens” by V. Kataev, “How the Steel Was Tempered” and “Born by the Storm” by N. Ostrovsky, “Tanker Derbent” by Yu. Krymov, “One-Storey America” by Ilf and Petrov.

You can pay attention to the fact that almost every year Roman-Gazeta publishes voluminous works by V. Grossman (“Gluckauf”, “Stepan Kolchugin”) and I. Ehrenburg (“Without taking a breath”, “What a person needs”). Subsequently, both of these authors found themselves 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 country’s public life.

Late 30s. Despite the “sworn friendship” with Germany, the country lived in anticipation of a big war. This could not but affect the literary process. In 1939, the pages of the Roman Newspaper published works praising the courage of Soviet people, their readiness to defend their 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 “Pattern”, N. Shpanov’s political pamphlet “First Strike. The Tale of a Future War." True, according to the ideological doctrine of that time, it was supposed to fight with “little blood” and “on foreign territory.”

The Great Patriotic War began. Many authors of Roman-Gazeta - famous Soviet writers - worked as war correspondents during the war. 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 “The Grapes of Wrath” by the American writer D. Steinbeck, a chronicle of the Great Depression, is published in three issues. The novels by 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-Gazeta will be published only in 1946. In the first three issues, Alexander Fadeev’s novel “The Young Guard” was published about Komsomol heroes who fought the fascists in the occupied territory. In the same year, another outstanding work was published on the pages of the magazine, which went down in the history of Russian literature - Alexander Tvardovsky’s poem “Vasily Terkin. A book about a fighter."

In 1947, Roman-Gazeta published the journalistic novel by the Czech journalist J. Fučík, “The Word Before the Execution,” which later became a classic of world anti-fascist literature, and in later translations, “Report with a Noose Around the Neck.”

The political uncertainty of 1949-1953 could not but affect the quality of works published in Roman-Gazeta and other central magazines. The fight against “cosmopolitanism” and “killer doctors” was gaining momentum in the country. A resolution of the Central Committee was issued on the magazines “Zvezda” and “Leningrad”, in which not only the works of Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko, but also their political views were subjected to devastating criticism. Therefore, editors and writers “blowed on the water” and demonstrated with all their might their loyalty to the ideals of the party. Such “loyal” works that explore the conflicts of “good” and “better” include the novels by A. Fedorov “The Underground Regional Committee is Acting”, A. Voloshin “Kuznetsk Land”, S. Babaevsky “The Light Above the Earth”, M. Ibragimov “It Will Come” day”, V. Ilyenkov’s “Big Road”, G. Nikolaeva’s “Harvest”, M. Bubennov’s “White Birch”, V. Kochetov’s “Zhurbins”.

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

In March 1953, Stalin died and Lavrentiy Beria was shot. The same fate awaited many NKVD and MGB employees who were overly zealous in carrying out the “criminal orders” of their superiors. “Killer doctors” were acquitted, and the campaign against “cosmopolitanism” and “adulation to the West” was curtailed. A new era was beginning.

Nevertheless, the ideological “machine” continued to function properly. Any attempts to “deviate” from the party line were met with rebuff, but, as a rule, without the “organizational conclusions” that were obligatory in former times. The first to test the strength of the new reality was Ilya Erenburg, who published a story under the significant title “The Thaw.” The story was criticized in the press, but the ice was broken. Writers have become bolder.

During these years, Roman-Gazeta published works that went down in the history of Soviet literature, both because of their artistic persuasiveness and their influence on society. The first include P. Nilin’s stories “Cruelty” and “Probationary Period”, D. Granin’s novel “Seekers”, V. Tendryakov’s stories “Among the Forests” and “Tight Knot”, V. Panova’s novel “Seasons”. The second includes V. Ovechkin’s essays “District Everyday Life,” which caused a heated discussion and laid the foundation for the “village” trend in Soviet journalism. This direction will become one of the main ones for the New World magazine during Tvardovsky’s editorship.

The number of foreign authors in the journal has increased significantly. Translated works appeared on the pages of the Roman Newspaper: D. Aldridge’s “Hunter”, L. Feuchtwanger’s “The Lautensack Brothers”, A. Lanou’s “Major Watren”.

In 1956, the historic 20th Congress of the CPSU took place, 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 - that some bosses are “boiled”, about the mistakes made in the first months of the war, about the difficult fate of children whose parents were repressed. The novels by A. Rybakov “Ekaterina Voronina”, E. Kazakevich “The House on the Square”, and A. Beck “The Life of Berezhkov”, published in “Roman-Gazeta”, are very popular among readers.

During the years of Khrushchev’s “thaw,” Soviet literature was gradually liberated from strict 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 magazine presents all areas of Soviet literature. In 1959, chapters from M. Sholokhov’s novel “They Fought for the Motherland” were published on the pages of “Roman-Gazeta”, and the following year the second book of “Virgin Soil Upturned” was published.

In the late 50s and early 60s, literature included a galaxy of young talented writers who reflected in their works the realities of modern times and touched upon a number of serious issues in their works. The Roman-Gazeta published the memoirs of O. Berggolts “Day Stars,” the science fiction novel “The Andromeda Nebula” by I. Efremov, and the poem “Beyond the Distance” by A. Tvardovsky. Among the foreign translations, noteworthy are the novels by D. Aldridge “I Don’t Want Him to Die”, A. Style “We Will Love Each Other Tomorrow” and “Collapse”, A. Cronin “Northern Light”.

In the 60s, Soviet literature experienced a real heyday. And although, at meetings with the creative intelligentsia, Khrushchev sharply scolded artists, denounced Pasternak, insulted the poets Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, and declared that in matters of culture he was a Stalinist, many writers were already working 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. Voronin - “Two Lives”, V. Bykov - “The Third Rocket”, P. Nilin - “Through the Cemetery”, Y. Bondarev - "Silence".

A new generation of writers confidently entered literature. Soon many members of this generation would occupy commanding heights in writers' organizations, and their works would be called "secretary" prose. But while their prose is still readily read, literary evenings and reading conferences are organized based on their works. The Roman-Gazeta publishes novels: “Tanks are moving in a diamond pattern” 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. Proskurina... Based on the novels of V. Kozhevnikov and A. Ivanov, the first television series were later filmed, which were watched by the whole country.

Other authors of “Roman-Gazeta” dedicated their works to the spiritual quest of young scientists, engineers, officers, and representatives of the creative intelligentsia: D. Granin - “I’m going into a storm”, Y. Trifonov - “Quenching Thirst”, S. Baruzdin - “Repetition of what has been passed” , A. Kron - “House and Ship”.

The circulation of the Roman Newspaper increases every year. The magazine introduces readers to almost all works of Soviet writers of public interest. At the same time, when selecting authors and drawing up publishing plans, the editors begin to make a “lean” towards “boss writers” - heads of writers’ unions and editors-in-chief of “thick” magazines. And although literary life in the country is in full swing, the seeds of “stagnation” are gradually sprouting on the “field” of Soviet culture.

Late 60s. The ideological “squeeze” 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. Aksenov, A. Gladilin and others - use the techniques of so-called “confessional” prose in their work. 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 being formed, with whom the KGB “works” closely. Some of them are forced to repent, some are sent to camps, some are exiled. It was then that Joseph Brodsky, the future Nobel Prize laureate in literature, became widely known.

In 1966–1969, outstanding works of writers from national republics were published on the pages of Roman-Gazeta: “I See the Sun” by N. Dumbadze, “Mother’s Field” and “Farewell, Gyulsary!” Ch. Aitmatova, “Village at the crossroads” J. Avizhus, finally, “My Dagestan” by R. Gamzatov. They rightfully entered the treasury of Soviet literature.

The circulation of Roman Newspaper reaches one million copies. The magazine publishes almost all works awarded the Lenin and State Prizes in Literature. Many readers across the country collect year-by-year editions of the publication. By this time, an image of the magazine was emerging that would persist 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”, many worthy works of Soviet writers were published on the pages of the “Roman-Gazeta”: the story “The Last Bow” by V. Astafiev, the novels of K. Simonov - “The Last Summer” and “Twenty Days Without War”, a novel by the Lithuanian prose writer J. Avijus “Lost Blood”, V. Bykov’s story “To Live Until Dawn” and “Obelisk”, G. Troepolsky’s story “White Bim Black Ear”. Among translated prose, we can note the novel by Z. Lenz “The German Lesson”, the story by F. Fühmann, the novel by D. Cusack “The Sun is Not Everything”.

1974–1977 is the time of formation and flourishing of “developed” socialism. These are the years of construction of BAM, Atommash, cascades of hydroelectric power stations in Central Asia, and many other “Komsomol-youth” construction projects. At the same time, the outwardly powerful and unshakable Soviet system is gradually plunging into a deep internal crisis. The oppressive atmosphere of stagnation, commodity shortages, corruption, and 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. Ananyev - "Milestones of Love", Sh. Rashidov - “Winners”, M. Alekseev – “The Uncrying Willow”, I. Stadnyuk – “War”, S. Babaevsky – “Stanitsa”, 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 their completion.

But completely different writers are popular with readers. They, too, although with difficulty, end up on the pages of the Roman Newspaper and, thanks to the magazine’s millions of copies, become known throughout the country. These are: O. Kuvaev – “Territory”, O. Kozhukhova – “Two Deaths Can’t Make It”, 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 - "Piebald Dog Running by the Edge of the Sea", V. Chivilikhin - "Swedish stops." Many of the listed writers will become regular authors of the magazine and will continue to collaborate with Roman-Gazeta in new times.

In the 70-80s, the circulation of Roman Newspaper exceeded three million copies. The magazine is becoming a truly “people's” publication. Works published on the pages of the “Roman-Gazeta” are extremely popular among readers, such as “Eternal Call” by A. Ivanov, “Your Name” by P. Proskurin, “Live and Remember” by V. Rasputin, the novels “Home” by F. Abramov and “Last bow” by V. Astafiev.

A real bestseller of that time was Yulian Semenov’s novel “TASS is authorized to declare...”, published in Roman-Gazeta in 1980. Later, a multi-part film will be made based on it, where the main roles will be played by V. Solomin and V. Kikabidze.

In 1982–1985, authors were published on the pages of the Roman Newspaper, who later became one of the most read and popular in Russia. These are V. Pikul (novel “Requiem for the PQ17 Caravan”), D. Balashov (novel “Burden of Power”), V. Chivilikhin (essay novel “Memory”). The historical research of V. Chivilikhin met with an enthusiastic reception from the patriotically minded 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 nations.” "and the stronghold of all kinds of reaction.

During these same years, the authors of the magazine were V. Lichutin (the story “The Winged Seraphim”) and A. Prokhanov (the novel “The Tree in the Center of Kabul”). Many works of these talented writers will then be published in Roman-Gazeta.

Readers greeted with great interest the issues of the magazine with the prose of Ch. Aitmatov - “Stormy Stop Station”, Y. Slepukhin - “Southern Cross”, P. Proskurina - “Black Birds”, V. Shugaev - “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. Krupina - “Living Water”.

Writers such as A. Prokhanov, V. Lichutin, A. Ivanov, V. Rasputin, D. Balashov, V. Chivilikhin, V. Pikul in the subsequent “troubled times” consistently opposed the indiscriminate denigration of the Soviet period and 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 “foremen of perestroika.”

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

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

In 1987, the magazine published two works that caused a heated discussion in society: the novels by 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 in orientation, was capable of taking responsibility for the fate of the country.

Ch. Aitmatov’s novel “The Scaffold” 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 “Thoughts at the Old Stone.” However, his thoughts, like the novel “Pyramid” later, remained misunderstood by readers.

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

D. Granin, very sensitive to the trends of the times, publishes on the pages of the magazine the novel “Bison” - an artistic 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, so not all citizens who collaborated with the Germans during the war were complete traitors and scoundrels.

In 1989, the “cult” novel of the perestroika era “Children of Arbat” by A. Rybakov was published in Roman-Gazeta. Now many literary researchers are perplexed why this particular work, and not, say, “Plunge into Darkness” by O. Volkov, or “The Vanquished” by N. Golovkina (Rimskaya-Korsakova) received such a significant resonance in society. Apparently, this is explained by the fact that the mentality of the majority of readers at that time was still “Soviet”. Therefore, the adherent of classical socialist realism A. Rybakov 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 new literature, and publishers still existed in the “Soviet” world, where the price of paper was minimal, utility bills were symbolic, and the distribution of multimillion-dollar copies throughout the country was practically free. But this “golden” time did not last long. The USSR had less than two years to live...

1990-1992. The mediocre attempt to return the country to control, undertaken by the so-called State Emergency Committee, finally turned the people away from the existing government. The time has come for “young reformers.”

It is symbolic that in the December 1991 issues of Roman-Gazeta the publication of the novel “August the Fourteenth” by the long-time merciless critic of the Soviet system A. Solzhenitsyn began. Solzhenitsyn should be given his due; he quickly realized the depth of the abyss into which post-Soviet Russia had slipped, and, despite his closeness to power, he began to convincingly criticize the policy of “reforms and democratization.”

With the collapse of the state, the “market” came to the publishing industry. No one else helped the newspapers and magazines, and they survived as best they could. Printing products were still affordable for readers, so editors willingly published literature that had previously been “banned” for ideological reasons, as well as foreign detective stories and “erotic” prose, previously unheard of in the USSR. But the reader quickly became disillusioned with this kind of “new products,” especially since, due to cost savings, the translations were illiterate and the printing execution was ugly.

During these years, the “thick” literary magazines were finally demarcated into “democratic” and “patriotic”. The first receive grants under Soros programs and subsidies from the authorities. The latter are left to their own devices. During these years, “Roman-Gazeta” occupies a worthy place among patriotic publications that remain faithful to the best traditions of Russian literature.

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

To attract new subscribers, collections of foreign fiction “The Spouses Who Loved Privacy”, the epic novel by the American writer M. Mitchell “Gone with the Wind”, the detective novel “The Ring of the Borgia” by D. Chase and the stories of Agatha Christie appear on the pages of the “Roman-Gazeta”.

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

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

In the troubled times of the first “democratic” years of the new Russia, Roman-Gazeta published an essay by the Ukrainian poet Boris Oleynik “Prince of Darkness” - about Gorbachev’s place in the history of the country.

Thus, almost the entire spectrum of patriotic literature was presented on the pages of the magazine. But this did not mean that the doors to the editorial office were closed to writers holding other political views. The “Roman-Gazeta” published: D. Volkogonov – “Triumph and Tragedy”, Y. Semyonov – “Expansion”, A. Rybakov – “The Thirty-fifth and Other Years”. This was clear evidence that when drawing up publishing plans, the main criteria for the editors were the author’s talent and the artistic merit of his work.

In 1998–2001, many works appeared on the pages of Roman-Gazeta, the authors of which tried to comprehend in 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 reward, 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 dedicated to the novels of A. Prokhanov – “Chechen Blues” and “Walkers in the Night”, the documentary prose of N. Ivanov – “Entrance into captivity is free, or Shoot in November”, “Cleaners”, “Special forces that do not will return."

“Veteran” of the fight against “totalitarianism” A. Solzhenitsyn was “noted” in the magazine with a collection of journalism from different years. However, by this time he had already largely revised his previous views, having published a sensational article “Russia in Collapse.”

Russian literature was finally divided into “folk” literature, eking out a miserable existence in the provinces, and “elite” literature, which filled the shelves of bookstores and the pages of “glamorous” publications. For magazines focusing on “folk” literature, for “Roman-Gazeta”, “Our Contemporary”, “Moscow”, for the miraculously preserved local literary magazines and almanacs, difficult times have come.

It was during these years that such striking works as “Mr. Hexogen” by A. Prokhanov, “Milady Rothman” by V. Lichutin, “Citizen of Darkness” and “In the Service of the Oligarch” by A. Afanasyev, “ The Sky of the Fallen" and "Demgorodok" by Yu. Polyakov, "Splash of Champagne" and "Voroshilovsky Shooter" by V. Pronin.

By this time, the journal’s principled position had finally been formed: to publish the best works of Russian authors, taking into account the widest range of interests of readers. The magazine 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 Lost” by E. Nosov, “Besivo” L. Borodin, “Ivan’s Daughter, Ivan’s Mother” by V. Rasputin.

Readers and subscribers of the Roman Newspaper, like the vast majority of ordinary people in Russia, sought to understand what really happened to their Motherland - the USSR? They tried to find answers to their questions in the works published in the magazine, and the authors of the Roman Newspaper 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 - “Nubuck”, E. Shishkin - “Crucified Soul” and “The Law of Preservation of Love”, V. Degtev - “The ABC of Survival”, E. Sazanovich - “Unexpected melody of the night.”

"Roman-Gazeta" rightfully calls itself "the last soldier of literature for the people." But literature, the living word, exist as long as they have readers and connoisseurs. The magazine believes in its readers - the romance between a person and a book will last forever.

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Roman newspaper (432 issues)

Format: PDF/ DjVu/ RTF/ DOC/ TXT/ FB2, Scanned pages
different
Years of manufacture: 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 artistic magazine
Publisher: Goslitizdat
Russian language
Number of pages: 432 x ~36-307

Description: Roman-newspaper is a Soviet and Russian literary magazine published monthly since 1927 and twice a month since 1957.
By July 1987 (on 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 spoke in Roman-Gazeta, of which 434 were Soviet writers and 94 foreign. 440 novels, 380 stories and 12 poetic works were published.
The design of the magazine changed several times, there were at least 5 different types of covers.
At the beginning of 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 issues)
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
Year of manufacture: 2010
Genre: Detective
Publisher: Can't buy it anywhere
Performer: 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 our own and where are strangers”, and decide how to live further, so that the “second oldest profession” is not exchanged for the first...
Add. information:
Digitized by: yuriy12
Cleared: Sapozhnikov Misha

30
Dec
2012

Forest newspaper (Vitaly Bianki)

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

30
Jan
2009

How a newspaper is made

ISBN: 5-88044-089-3

Year of manufacture: 1998
Author: Nyrkova L.M.
Genre: practical guide
Publisher: Gandalf
Number of pages: 68
Description: This manual is intended primarily for students of faculties and departments of journalism who have chosen newspaper design as their specialization and are beginning to master its basics. However, we 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

Hard Soft computer newspaper (binder)

Format: PDF (scanned pages)
Year of manufacture: 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 pages of the magazine contain 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) Distribution updated 05/19/13. Added №05 (246) 2013

27
Jun
2018

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

Author: Organ of the Central Committee and MK of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.
Year of manufacture: 1918-1991
Genre: Newspaper
Publisher: Publishing house and printing house of the newspaper “Pravda” named after. I. V. Stalin
Russian language
Number of pages: ≈150000
Description: Numbers 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
Jun
2010

Newspaper "Vegetable Garden" No. 7

Format: PDF, scanned pages
Year of manufacture: 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. Provide recommendations on gardening, viticulture, horticulture and floriculture for the southern regions of Russia.

19
Mar
2013

Computer newspaper Hard Soft

Format: ISO
Year of manufacture: 2012-2013
Genre: CD magazine supplements
Publisher: Golden Collection
Russian language
Number of discs: 11
Description: Computer newspaper Hard Soft is a glossy magazine published twice a month. The pages of the magazine contain reviews of the latest: computer hardware, mobile communications, multimedia devices, software, Internet services, games. List of discs 2012: No. 2, 5-7, 9-14 2013: No. 1 Contents of discs 2012 No. 02 New 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
Jun
2010

Newspaper Garden-vegetable garden No. 8

Format: PDF, scanned pages
Year of manufacture: 2010
Genre: newspaper for summer residents
Publisher: Publishing House "Vegetable 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, vegetable gardening and floriculture for the southern regions of Russia.
Add. Information: To view pdf files, it is recommended to install Adobe Reader

26
May
2016

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

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

03
Jun
2014

The Last Newspaper (book 1 of 3) (Nikolai Klimontovich)

Format: audiobook, MP3, 96kbps
Author: Nikolai Klimontovich
Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: Contemporary prose
Publisher: Can't buy it anywhere
Performer: Laura Eremina
Duration: 04:33:24
Description: The heroes of this book are the “superfluous people” of present life. What are they thinking about, what are they worried about? Probably what the classic characters of Russian literature experienced: the incompleteness of existence, tragic unbelief, the inability to find oneself, the thirst for love and purification. The poignantly described state of mind of these “extra people” is unlikely to find a way out in modern reality. In `The Last Newspaper` the matured hero...

29
Apr
2008

Type: audio play
Genre: novel
Author: M.A. Bulgakov
Performer: Oleg Tabakov, Yulia Rutberg, Maxim Sukhanov
Publisher: Radio “Culture”
Audio: MP3 audio_bitrate: 192
Description: The title “Theatrical Novel” defines the main content of the work - the novel between the main character, playwright Maksudov, and the Independent Theater, and the novel as a literary creation dedicated to the theatrical world and left in the posthumous notes of the playwright who committed suicide. The plot of "Theatrical Romance" 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 issues)

Format: DjVu, PDF, Scanned pages
Year of manufacture: 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, technology and equipment, antennas, reference material - it's all on amateur radio topics.
Add. information: To view the magazine, it is recommended to use the Adobe Acrobat Reader program, which can open *.pdf files. To view the log form...

17
Aug
2016

Latinoparaiso (283 rooms)

Format: PDF, Scanned pages
Year of manufacture: 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 TV series. In each issue of the magazine you will discover the latest and most 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 series, will find a section to suit their taste. Containing...

Add. information: To view the journal in *.pdf format, it is recommended to use the program...

“We then lived in the Paris suburb of Vincennes in a small furnished apartment, consisting of one small room with a kitchen. Our family consisted of three people: me, my husband and my eleven-year-old daughter. Autumn 1933. I am unemployed, my husband is quite seriously ill, my daughter went to school. The husband had been suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis 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 the revolution freed him as a political prisoner. He left prison without one lung, and now his second lung, also affected by tuberculosis, was failing. In addition, he was tormented by bone tuberculosis for the last couple of years. Two ribs were affected and constantly developed large, painful lumps filled with pus. He was also worried about a non-healing wound on his leg, shot in one of the battles by an explosive bullet. He was limping on this leg. From time to time, fragments of an explosive bullet came out of the wound.

Once in the Russian newspaper “Last News” I read an advertisement that a Russian children’s boarding school was looking for female workers. I went to the indicated address and got a job as a laundress in a boarding house for Russian girls in Kensi, while my sick husband was left alone at home. On Sundays I visited him occasionally. 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 many 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 my husband. We met him while living in the same hotel on the same floor in Vincennes. He often came to see us, had long conversations with my husband, and was always a welcome guest.

Despite his stay in the hospital, the husband's health did not improve. In June, doctors decided to perform an operation - (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 didn’t answer, only tears rolled from his eyes. I cried too. There was nothing more for us to talk about... I realized that it was hard for him, that his vitality was leaving him, that he was no longer a survivor in this world. And a few days later, a friend, Maxim, comes to my work in Kensi by taxi and says: “Get ready, Galina, we’re going to Paris now, Nestor is dying”...

It’s sad... The death of every person is tragic, no matter how sinful he may be. And yet let’s try to guess: who is it? Who so peacefully and meekly reckoned with life in a poor hospital, alone and restless? A modest employee, a loser hard worker, an intellectual confused in life, a bankrupt 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, sweat of war horses, gun oil, and 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 daring and daring, contempt for one’s own and – to our great misfortune – the lives of others.

This name is Nestor Ivanovich Makhno. The story in our book will be about him, and most importantly - about the affairs connected with him...

"Roman-newspaper" No. 6, 2015.
Kamil ZIGANSHIN.
Aldan Gold.

"Roman-newspaper" No. 4, 2015.
Galina TURCHINA.
On the Debra River.

"Roman-newspaper" No. 3, 2015.
Evgeny NOSOV.
With gray hair at the temples.

"Roman-newspaper" No. 14, 2014.
Georgy PRYAKHIN.
Boarding school.

"Roman-newspaper" No. 13, 2014.
Vladimir EREMENKO.
Mind Carriers.

The next issue of the Children's RG has been released:

Photo album!

Editor-in-Chief of Roman-Gazeta Yuri Kozlov.

Work on the release of the electronic version of "Roman Newspaper" continues

stay tuned

We have been since '27

The Roman-Gazeta magazine, which several years ago received the status of a national publication, was founded in July 1927. More than 700 authors contributed to the magazine; About 1,200 novels, novellas, short stories, artistic and documentary works, as well as 13 collections of poetry have been published. Sholokhov and Leonov, Tvardovsky and Shmelev, Rasputin and Belov, Akhmatova and Soloukhin, Proskurin and Solzhenitsyn, Pikul and Chivilikhin, Balashov and Alekseev, Dudintsev and Uspensky, Astafiev and Likhonosov, Bondarev and Borodin, stories about great commanders, holy ascetics of Rus', farmers and the cosmic beyond, about ordinary people, were read by millions of people on the pages of the Roman Newspaper. We learned “Quiet Don” and “Russian Forest”, “Vasily Terkin” and “Business as Usual”, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “My Stalingrad”, “Live and Remember” and “The Tsar Fish”. "Roman-Gazeta" today is a truly mass magazine of literary prose in our country and in the world. The best works of Russian literature are published on its pages. It is read throughout Russia, as well as in the near and far abroad. The range of readers of the magazine is wide: peasants, military personnel, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, workers, students, pensioners. His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' blessed the activities of Roman-Gazeta in the spiritual and moral education of the people in his message.

The best works of Russian writers. New items in modern literature. "Roman-newspaper" is the most popular fiction magazine. The traditional style of "Roman Newspaper" - high literary taste combined with satisfying the comprehensive needs of readers - has remained unchanged for more than 75 years. All significant works of Russian literature have been and are being published in our magazine. "Roman-Gazeta" is the only literary and artistic magazine that has 24 issues per year, 12 per half-year. Subscription indexes in the Rospechat catalog: 70782 for half a year, 71752 for a year.

Phone numbers for inquiries:

(8-499) 261-95-87,

(8-499) 261-84-61

They write about us:

Classic:

“Roman-Gazeta” was needed as a people’s publication, as a “direct line” with literary novelties, and it immediately became such a publication. For decades it was impossible to find a corner in our country where it did not reach. It is her merit that Russia was rightfully considered the most reading country in the world. The piles of “Roman-newspaper” were replenished in taiga wintering grounds, and at polar stations, and in the yurts of reindeer herders. It “embraced” Russia (I don’t presume to judge whether the same was true in Lithuania, Georgia and Tajikistan), and became necessary and “nutritious.” All the best that appeared in literature (sometimes belatedly) did not escape its pages. There were, of course, “ideological” publications; there were years when they prevailed, but even then Roman-Gazeta was able to show what was being imposed on it and what it offered with joy. In the second case, even the covers shone in a special way. By its Russian character, it was and remains a “broad-reaching” publication, friendly, loving its own, and always published the best that appeared in national literature... and more in world literature. The total library of "Roman-Gazeta" is more than a thousand works, showing the spiritual makeup of Russia and partly the world of the entire twentieth century.

Valentin Rasputin

"Roman-newspaper", a mass periodical publication of modern fiction, mainly novels and stories. Having arisen according to the thoughts of V. I. Lenin and the initiative of M. Gorky in July 1927, “R.-G.” was published by the Moscow Worker publishing house, and from 1931 - by Goslitizdat (Khudozhestvennaya Literatura publishing house). Frequency: 1 issue, and since 1957 - 2 issues per month. Edited "R.-G." I. M. Bespalov, M. I. Serebryansky, V. Kin, V. G. Ilyinkov and others. "R.-G." is designed to popularize the best works of modern Soviet and foreign authors, previously published in Russian. In "R.-g." “The Artamonov Case” by M. Gorky, “The Quiet Don” by M. A. Sholokhov, the poem “Vasily Terkin” by A. T. Tvardovsky, “Tales of Mountains and Steppes” by Ch. Aitmatov, “The Ice Book” by Yu. Smuul were published; novels “On Fire” by A. Barbusse, “All Quiet on the Western Front” by E. M. Remarque, “The Word Before Execution” by Y. Fuchik and many others. Circulation over 1.5 million copies. (1975).

V. A. Kalashnikov.

Press:

Yuri KOZLOV. A good book teaches virtue. The proposal from Roman-Gazeta is worthy of attention. (Publication in 2004 in the Parliamentary Newspaper).

Yuri KOZLOV. The Roman newspaper has always been saved by its people. (Publication in 2002 in Literaturnaya Gazeta).

Yuri KOZLOV. Frontiers of the People's Magazine(Publication in 2002 in "Red Star")

26
Aug
2016