Dostoevsky's ideas for the development of the conception of the weekly journal "Grazhdanin (the citizen)" (1873-1874)

The article analyzes the programme of the weekly journal Grazhdanin (The Citizen) as "a body of Russian people who are not members of any party". It was revealed in editorial announcements about the subscription by G. K. Gradovsky in 1872. The author notes the commonality of the ideological programmes of Grazhdanin and the journals Vremia (Time) and Epokha (The Epoch) published by the Dostoevskys brothers. Being an editor, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky made some amendments and clarifications to the conception of Grazhdanin. He included the studies of the issues of church, everyday public and family life of Russia, district council (zemstvo), peasant world and new phenomena in literature into the blueprint of the journal. This blueprint was realized by Dostoevsky in A Writer's Diary that became the personal Diary of a Citizen and editorial diary of the weekly journal Grazhdanin. In feuilletons and articles, which modiied this column into a new genre of Dostoevsky, he elucidated the standpoints of the publication regarding many social, political and state issues of those times.