Editor Vladislav Artyomov Circulation 3,5 thousand (2009) Country Russian Federation | Frequency Monthly First issue 1957 Based in Moscow | |
Moskva (Москва, Moscow) is a Russian monthly literary magazine founded in 1957 in Moscow.
History
Moskva magazine was established in 1957, originally as an organ of the RSFSR Union of Writers and its Moscow department. Its first editor was Nikolay Atarov (1957-1958), succeeded by Yevgeny Popovkin (1958-1968). It was during his time that (in December 1966 - January 1967 issues) for the first time ever Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was published. It is published on a monthly basis.
The magazine's third editor-in-chief Mikhail Alekseyev has brought its selling figures to record highs (775 thousand in 1989) and made history too by publishing Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State (1989-1990) for the first time since 1917. In the 1990s and 2000s, under Vladimir Krupin (1990-1992) and Leonid Borodin (1992-2008), Moskva, along with Nash Sovremennik magazine and Alexander Prokhanov-edited Den and Zavtra newspapers, moved into the vanguard of the so-called 'spiritual opposition' movement. In 1993 the subtitle, The Magazine of Russian Culture, was added to its title page.
In 2000s, under Borodin (who in 2009 became the magazine's general director), self-proclaimed 'Russian nationalist' Sergey Sergeyev (2009-2010) and Vladislav Artyomov (2012-), Moskva's popularity declined, with circulation figures dropping to 3,5 thousand. Still, it was here that Dmitry Rogozin chose to publish his 2011 novel Baron Zholtok.