Pochta Dukhov

Pochta Dukhov

 

(Spirits’ Mail), a monthly journal published in St. Petersburg from January through August 1789. Its publisher and apparently its sole author was I. A. Krylov. The journal was in the form of a correspondence between a sorcerer and a number of spirits; sketches on everyday life alternated with moralistic and philosophical discourses. Pochta dukhov took a bold political direction; it censured both moral vices and the social system of autocratic and serf-owning Russia.

EDITION

Krylov, I. A. Soch., vol. 1. Moscow, 1945.

REFERENCES

Berkov, P. N. “Pochta dukhov’ I. A. Krylova.” In Trudy iubileinoi nauchnoi sessii LGU: Sektsiia filologicheskikh nauk Leningrad, 1946.
Blagoi, D. D. “Satiricheskaia proza Krylova.” In I. A. Krylov: Issledovaniia i materialy. Moscow, 1947.
Gordin, A. Krylov ν Peterburge. Leningrad, 1969.