Journalist, Public Opinion and Authorities: M.N. Katkov's Periodicals in the ‘Tsar's Reviews' in the Years of 1860-1866
The ‘Tsar's Reviews' (Tsarskiye Obozreniya), a specific kind of records sources, are the surveys of periodical press prepared for the emperor starting from the turn of the 1850s and 1860s. On the basis of these reviews, as well as other archival sources, the author studies M.N. Katkov's publishing and journalistic activities, his role in the mobilization of public opinion and relations with various government officials in the period of 1860-1866. Special attention is paid to Katkov's activities in the publicistic struggle against A.I. Herzen, that was previously interpreted as part of the campaign organized by the authorities in 1862.