Abstract: The article presents the announcement of the collective work “Essays on the History of Russian Journalism in the First Third of the 19th Century” being prepared in the Department of Russian Classical Literature of the IMLI RAS. It is a continuation of the previously published first volume of the series — “Essays on the History of Russian Journalism in the 18th Century”. The new issue was prepared by the efforts of the staff of the group for the study of the history of Russian literature in the 18th — 19th centuries under the leadership of the untimely deceased leading employee of the Department, Doctor of Philological Sciences Natal’ya Bludilina (1957–2017), who was its initiator. The presented work has no analogues in modern literary criticism — the object of study was the Russian journalism, presented as an integral phenomenon of Russian literature. The team of authors consider journalism to be a special type of literature, associated mainly with the sphere of thoughts and ideas that prevail in this special genre over the artistic way of comprehending the world. The priority task of the authors was the study of important and least studied works of journalism of the first third of the 19th century. based on rare printed sources and inaccessible materials.
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