In the evaluation of the journal "Russki Vestnik"
The article examines the publications of the conservative monthly «Russki Vestnik», devoted to new phenomena in the aesthetics of realism at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. It is revealed that the inherent attitude of the publication to traditionalism and the preservation of continuity in the development of society were reflected in the assessments of modern literary phenomena. Literary critics N.Ya. Stechkin, N.M. Sokolov, A.I. Pokrovsky rejected both the modernist literature of K. Balmont, V. Bryusov, etc., and the work of M. Gorky and the realist writers of his circle - A. Kuprin, L. Andreeva et al. It is concluded that the absence in the «Russki Vestnik» of a clear, grounded aesthetic program, categorical denial of new trends in art was one of the reasons for the termination of publication in 1906.