Stoicism in Russian periodicals of the XIX century: peculiarities of reception

The scope of the study is the history of the reception of the Stoic legacy in the Russian periodicals (journals, newspapers, collections of works) published during the XIX century. The Russian periodicals of the first half of the 19th century inherited in their character and content the materials of the 18th century. They mostly had edifying and entertaining character, demonstrating sometimes the lack of scholarship and originality. A landmark event that influenced significantly the revitalization and reformatting of the educated Russian public's interest in the Stoics was the broad discussion in a number of major journals and newspapers about the works of G. Boissier, C. Martha, and E. Renan published in 1879 -1881. In the last decades of the 19th century, periodicals in Russia contributed to a surge of interest in the philosophers of Portico. On the pages of journals and newspapers moral strategies and religious views of the Stoics were extolled and overthrown; new translations of Stoic texts and critical works on the Stoics were actively discussed; certain aspects of Stoic ideas came into the focus of attention of publicists of various kinds - from revolutionaries to scholars and theologians. Due to the fact that periodicals had their own specificity, distinct from works written for scholars or students, they played an important role in generating and sustaining interest in the Stoics among an educated public. They also contributed to the preparation of the foundation for the formation of Stoic (and more broadly, Ancient) studies in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.