The newspaper is your secret adviser archive. "Your Privy Councilor" has become a historical magazine. Two "Privy Councilors" for one city

While printed publications in Russia are closing one after another, a new one appears in the Northern capital. The popular historical magazine "Your Privy Councilor" is a 100-page glossy magazine about St. Petersburg. On its pages - historical investigations, infographics, romantic stories, the life of bridges and buildings. "Fontanka" visited the presentation of the magazine.

While printed publications in Russia are closing one after another, a new one appears in the Northern capital. The popular historical magazine "Your Privy Councilor" is a 100-page glossy about St. Petersburg. On its pages - historical investigations, infographics, romantic stories, the life of bridges and buildings. "Fontanka" visited the presentation of the magazine.

A new magazine appeared in St. Petersburg. However, there is no news in it, but there is old age. A popular magazine about the history of St. Petersburg was presented the day before by journalist and writer Andrei Konstantinov.

The historical format is popular all over the world, Konstantinov noted. “In Germany and France there are 6 or 8 such magazines, and in the USA several publications write only about the history of the war between the North and the South. These magazines are in demand.

According to the head of the project Maxim Kuzakhmetov, in the Czech Republic there are about a dozen historical magazines about antiquity, the Middle Ages, the First World War and other large-scale milestones. The journals about history that exist in St. Petersburg are more aimed at the academic community. “There is, for example, the Gangut magazine, it contains everything about the navy, a number devoted to the armor protection of ships can be published. Or there is a magazine "Warrior". On its pages you can find a long article about the uniform of a regiment, how it has changed over 20 years. This is not very popular, it is important for scientists to rummage through the shards - ordinary people need a picture.

As the publishers of Your Privy Counsel say, the public has always been insanely interested in spreads in National Geographic or Around the World, for example, about the death of Pompeii, with drawings and infographics. The only specialized magazine in Russia that writes in detail and interestingly about history is the Moscow Diletant. Now another one has appeared in St. Petersburg - "Privy Councillor".

Probably, the interest of readers can be explained by the fact that popular historical magazines talk about what is dear and familiar - about their native history, Andrei Konstantinov believes. This is the task that the publishers have set themselves, and among their goals they see the popularization of history among the townspeople.

The first issue of "Your Privy Councilor" was published at the end of June, its theme was the founding of St. Petersburg. It contains materials about the history of the city's name, infographics and a detailed description of the Bronze Horseman, a map of the Northern War and the appearance of an officer of the Russian army in 1700, and also find out what color and when the Hermitage was. There is also a "women's" story in the test issue: about the life and execution of Maria Hamilton, the mistress of Peter I. According to Maxim Kuzakhmetov, in each next issue there will be a similar story, one might say, for women - about love.

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Journalists are already preparing the August issue, in which they will write about the Russian fleet. Next to the story about the great sailor princes, it will contain a story about the mistress of General Kolchak.

In the September issue, they want to touch on a topic that is relevant in connection with the gubernatorial elections - the city government (who ruled St. Petersburg, who elected and who was elected, they will touch on the topic of corruption and tell why there were traffic jams on the improperly designed Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt a century ago).

The publishers nevertheless call the first issues an experiment, and the image of the magazine is still being formed. For example, headings are planned about the fate of the inhabitants of the city - ordinary and prominent people, they will tell about St. Petersburg bridges on the pages of the magazine, historical investigations, discussions and simply entertaining facts will be published, reviews and tips on reading historical books are planned.

The publishers of the magazine are planning to take part of the materials from the newspaper “Your Privy Councilor”, and it was its name that the magazine inherited. “Over the years, a lot of materials have accumulated in the archives, these are stories of brutal murders, and memories of the Great Patriotic War,” added the head of the Agency for Journalistic Investigations. Konstantinov promised to touch on the topic of revolutions: how many were there in St. Petersburg? What were palace coups? “Themes are not dictated to us from the Kremlin and Smolny. As they say, where we want, we cackle there, ”he noted.

However, Smolny has already become interested in the historical magazine. “I told the governor, right in front of me he began to enthusiastically leaf through the publication,” the writer said.

Advertisers also saw the prospect in the new monthly: already on the pages of the first issue you can find ads, which is rare for a newborn media. Despite the small print run (10,000 copies), it is already being sold out. “Only yesterday I saw it at a kiosk, I thought about buying it, but I was embarrassed, I’m going back - but not anymore,” Konstantinov shared with reporters.

On the cover of the magazine there is a free price, but in the kiosks "Your Privy Councilor" can be found for about 100 rubles. While the publication is not presented on the Internet, AZhUR has not yet decided how to monetize the magazine's website. However, in addition to the monthly itself, the journalists are planning several other projects: for example, after a series of publications, publish books - "100 Bridges of St. Petersburg", "Confessions of St. Petersburg" and so on. There are also more ambitious ideas, for example, to cooperate with reenactment clubs. Project manager Maxim Kuzakhmetov did not rule out that "Your Privy Councilor" could become the organizer of a large historical festival.

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On June 24, the first issue of the historical magazine Your Privy Councilor was published. According to its editor-in-chief Andrey Konstantinov, today the readership has a great demand for such publications.

On June 26, the presentation of the first issue of the historical magazine “Your Privy Councilor” took place in the conference hall of the Agency for Journalistic Investigations. Petersburgers are well aware of the newspaper of the same name, the publication of which, however, was suspended by AJUR in January 2011. The initial circulation of the publication will be 10,000 copies per month, but it is planned to increase it in the future. The magazine will be sold for a fee, the price will be set by the distributors themselves.

In his opening speech, editor-in-chief Andrey Konstantinov presented the magazine as a popular-historical one: “Popular, in the sense of popularizing history, is an attempt to speak in simple terms about what is important, dear, and significant to all of us. It seems to me that today there is a great need for such a publication, and perhaps even publications. First, it is a historical trend. Historical magazines are popular in Austria, Poland, Germany, France. We are a little, maybe even late with this matter.

As a good example of such projects, Konstantinov cited the Ekho Moskvy magazine Diletant as an example, emphasizing that the working field of publications is so wide that there is no question of competition: “Everyone knows the Diletant magazine published by Ekho Moskvy. Our brainchild - this one is not a competitor to "Amateur". We decided to focus on our city. We decided to make the founding of the city the theme of the first issue, and we are well aware that with the periodicity of publishing the magazine once a month, we could talk about only one founding of St. Petersburg for a whole year.

“There will definitely be reviews in the magazine, advice on what books about the history of the city to read and what films to watch,” added Maxim Kuzakhmetov, project manager.

The permanent headings of the magazine will be "Bridges", "Interfaith Petersburg", "Fates" (this heading will tell about famous people and the fate of ordinary people, who, according to Kuzakhmetov, open a window into the era when a person lived). Based on the journal materials, the project management plans to publish a book in a few years.

The theme of the second issue will be the fleet, the third one will be devoted - for the upcoming elections - to the history of the mayors of St. Petersburg. According to the editor-in-chief, the creators intend to experiment with the first two issues. Among the authors of "Your Privy Councilor" are Gleb Stashkov, Daniil Kotsyubinsky, Igor Shusharin.

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