&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Niva_journal.jpg) An issue from April 27, 1891 | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Circulation | 200,000 |
| Founded | 1870 |
| Final issue | 1918 |
| Based in | St. Petersburg |
| Language | Russian |
Niva (Russian: Нива) (Grainfield) was the most popular magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia; it lasted from 1870 to 1918, and defined itself on its masthead as "an illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life." Niva was the first of the Russian "thin magazines," illustrated weeklies that "contrasted with the more serious and ideologically focused monthly 'thick journals' intended for the educated reader."[1]
- ^ Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 (Northwestern University Press, 2003: ISBN 0-8101-1897-1), p. 111.