Эволюция общественных взглядов на мир детства на рубеже 1850-х – 60-х годов: опыт детского журнала «Подснежник»

Клио. 2025. № №2(218). С. 28–32.

Bogacheva A.

The article is devoted to the changes in public views on the world of childhood at the turn of the

1850s-1860s, which are broadcast in the children’s magazine “Podsnezhnik”, published by V.N. Maykov. “Podsne-

zhnizhnik” was a popular magazine of a ‘new type’. The magazine was not financially supported by government and

was characterized by periodicity, unlike other periodicals of that time. It was attended by a large number of public

figures of the time, which reflected the growing public interest in the world of childhood. In the 1830s and 1840s,

society had a strong perception of the sentimental and refined world of children, for whom it was necessary to

“adapt” and remake information for their understanding. In the 1850s the situation changed, due to the develop-

ment of pedagogical ideas, the peak of society’s interest in the fate of the future generation and the fate of Russia,

as well as the detailed criticism of V.G. Belinsky and N.A. Dobrolyubov of the existing corpus of children’s literature.

The authors of “Podsnezhnik”, responding to the problems of children’s literature, defended the ideas of realism in

works for children, considered it their duty to enrich children’s reading with the achievements of world and national

Russian literature, as well as to make them available to children of different classes.

Keywords: social attitudes, мир детства, Общественная мысль в России, world of childhood, children’s magazine “Podsnezhnik”, V.N. Maykov, детский журнал «Подснежник», В.Н. Майков