L. N. Tolstoy and N. G. Chernyshevsky: Attractions and Repulsions — Personal and Literary by Evgenija M. Geronimus

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Reception of the Ukrainophilic ideas by Russian periodicals during the first half of the 1860s: Democratic and protective approaches by E.R. Rachev

“…The democratic approach was led by the magazines “Sovremennik” (‘The Contemporary’) and “Otechestvennye Zapiski” (‘Annals of the Fatherland’) that considered the new provincial movement as the beginning of Narodism. …”
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The Discourse of a Historian and Administrator in Yevgeny Feoktistov’s Notes from What Has Been Heard and Seen by Yelena N. Penskaya

“…Yevgeny Feoktistov was a writer, a journalist, a staff member of the magazines Sovremennik and Otechestvennye Zapiski, the editor of Russkaya Rech and Journal of the Ministry of National Enlightenment (1871–1883), later a censor, the privy councillor (since January 1, 1883), the head of the Central Administration for Printing Press for almost 13 years (1883–1896) (Russia’s censor-in-chief), a senator (from May 23, 1896 until his death), and part of Russia’s administrative elite. …”
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"A nest of the gentlefolk" or "Liza": on the reception of Turgenev’s novel by English readers by Yulia Burmistrova

“…Ten years after publishing A Nest of the Gentlefolk in Sovremennik in 1859, an English translation of the novel appeared prepared by English researcher and translator William Ralston Shedden-Ralston. …”
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Pestel vs. Pestel: L. Zorin’s tragedy The Decembrists and B. Okudzhava’s novel Poor Avrosimov by Alexandrova, Mariya Alexandrovna

“…The context of Okudzhava’s creative search is formed not only by historical documents, but also by impressions from the Decembrists (a play and performance on the stage of the Sovremennik Theatre); the article underlines the main aspects of the polemical dialogue between the novelist and the playwright. …”
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Unknown Dobrolyubov: Russia and Italy in the Life of the Litarary Critic by I. V. Tolokonnikova

“…The trip to Italy was strongly recommended to Nikolai Alexandrovich by his colleagues at the Sovremennik magazine. He went to Italy to improve his failing health and spent the last year of his life in picturesque Florence, Rome, Milan, and Naples. …”
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