Russkaya Rech (Saint Petersburg magazine) explained

Russkaya Rech (Russian: Русская речь, Russian Speech) was a Russian quarterly political and literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1879–1882 by the poet, novelist and playwright Alexander Navrotsky, who was also its editor-in-chief.^[1]

Among the authors who contributed to Russkaya Rech regularly, were Alexander Gradovsky, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Danilevsky, Alexander Kruglov and Evgeny Markov. The Internal Politics section was run by Mikhail Rosenheim.^[2] Navrotsky himself published in it some of his most ambitious works, including the historical dramas Poslednyaya Rus (The Last Rus), Kreshcheniye Litvy (The Conversion of Lithuania) and Iezuity v Litve (Jesuits in Lithuania).

This enterprise proved financial catastrophe for Navrotsky who shut it down in 1882.^[1]

Notes and References

1. The biography of A. A. Navrotsky by A. Reithblath in the Russian Writers 1800-1917 dictionary // А. И. Рейтблат. Навроцкий Александр Александрович // Русские писатели. 1800—1917. Биографический словарь. Т. 4: М—П. Москва: Большая российская энциклопедия, 1999. С. 199—200.
2. Web site: Розенгейм, Михаил Павлович. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. 16 November 2015.