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Severny Vestnik
Severny Vestnik (, ) was an influential Russian literary magazine founded in Saint Petersburg in 1885 by Anna Yevreinova, who stayed with it until 1889.
History.
In the early years "Severny Vestnik" was the Narodnik's stable; after "Otechestvennye Zapiski" folded in 1884 it was here that Nikolay Mikhaylovsky and his allies took refuge, among them being Gleb Uspensky, Vladimir Korolenko and Anton Chekhov. 
Later, in the 1890s, after Liubov Gurevich's group had acquired it, "Severny Vestnik
after the first one, "The Death of Gods", was finished, submerging himself in studying the history of Renaissance. By this time he had the vision of the trilogy as a whole. In 1896 with Zinaida Gippius (and accompanied by "Severny Vestnik" editor Akim Volynsky) he made a journey to Europe visiting places where Leonardo da Vinci had stayed while accompanying Francis I of France. 
The plans of publishing the novel in "Severny Vestnik" had to be discarded after Volynsky whose advances had been rejected by