Creative Intersections in the Coverage of International Events in the Journals of F. M. Dostoevsky and N. G. Chernyshevsky (Based on the Journals Sovremennik and Vremya)

The article focuses on the editorial policies of the magazines Vremya and Sovremennik in their coverage of international events from January 1861 to April 1862. During this period, both publications were published concurrently, and their strategies for covering events such as the Italian Risorgimento, the Mexican intervention, and the position of Hungary within the Austrian Empire were similar. The most significant difference between the two magazines was their approach to the American Civil War. The journals’ coverage of internal politics in the Ottoman Empire also differed significantly. The research also shows that Dostoevsky wrote his article “Slavophiles, Montenegrins, and Westerners...” largely due to Chernyshevsky’s writings in the Politics section of the journal for 1861, which addressed the Slavic question and the events in the United States in a particular way.