The Contemporary (Sovremennik)

and, among other things, on our journal. We acknowledge that the Sovremennik Contemporary has not always combined all those conditions necessary for a journal to be a journal, rather than a collection of random articles offering more or less diverse reading material. It is clear that the combination of these conditions will remain impossible as long as the uncertainty regarding the state of literature is not resolved. Now, it seems, this uncertainty is coming to an end. We hope that the future statute on printing, by establishing the position of the press on solid foundations, will precisely define the boundaries within which each journal will have the opportunity to act independently, without hesitation and without any of the fears that, in the present uncertain situation, deprive the journal of the confidence necessary for successful activity. With this hope, we resolve to continue the publication of the Sovremennik in the coming year 1864.

The Sovremennik will be published in 1864 under the editorship of the undersigned, with the constant participation in the editorial work of M. E. Saltykov (Shchedrin), A. N. Pypin, and M. A. Antonovich, according to the following program:

I. Novels, novellas, dramas. — Poetry. — Articles on science, art, etc.

II. Contemporary Review, which will combine: a) articles on current events and issues occupying Russian society; b) foreign correspondence; c) critical articles on remarkable phenomena in Russian literature and journalism; bibliography of newly published Russian books; articles regarding remarkable new phenomena in foreign literatures; d) political review; e) internal review; f) feuilleton; g) the whistle original: "svistok", as a collection of literary, journalistic, and other notes, will appear as materials suitable and convenient for it accumulate.