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Syn otechestva
Syn otechestva (), which translates as "Son of the Fatherland", was a Russian literary magazine published in the 19th century in St. Petersburg from 1812 to 1852. It was influential in the development of social thought and literature in Russia. 
The magazine was edited by Nicholas Gretsch between 1812 and 1837. His main assistant was Faddei Bulgarin. "Syn otechestva" was Russia's most influential magazine between the Napoleonic wars and the Decembrist Revolt. It grew increasingly conservative after Nicholas I's accession to the
Chekhov Gymnasium), where he fell in love with Greek language lessons and wrote the long poem "Sappho" at the age of thirteen.
In 1838, his work To the Sea was published for the first time at the magazine "Syn Otechestva" (Son of the Fatherland). In 1850, a collection of his poems, "Grecheskie stikhotvoreniya" (Greek Verses), was published in Odessa and was well received by the public. Shcherbina moved to Moscow the same year, where he worked as assistant to