Scientific, literary, and political magazine. It was published in 1894-1897 in Saint- Petersburg. The magazine was founded by I. Potanin in 1893. From 1895, the magazine was edited by writer and publisher O. N. Popova. Editors: A. A. Sleptsov, A. M. Skabichevsky. Monthly edition. At the beginning it was a liberal-populist magazine, then a Marxist edition. In 1897, from issue No. 6, the magazine's materials were subjected to censorship reductions. On December 10, 1897, by the decision of the three ministers and the Ober-Procurator of the Most Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev the magazine was finally forbidden. In 1897, Vol. 12 was confiscated and burned. The magazine featured works of S. Krivenko, Y. Abramov, L. Obolensky, N. Danielson, N. Vorontsov, V. Lenin, G. V. Plekhanov, V. I. Zasulich, Y. O. Martov, A. M. Kalmykova, P. B. Struve, V. I. Bogucharsky, S. Bulgakov, M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky, M. Gorky, V. V. Veresaev, E. Chirikov, and others.
Presented issues: 1894-1897.