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VARIETIES, LITERAIIV AND MISCELLANEOIS. 



F O R K I G N. 



Growth of the Biissi'm Empire. — Under 

 Ivan I, in 1462, the Uussian Empire con- 

 tained 18,491 square miles; at li is decease 

 in 1505, 37,137: at the death of Ivan II, 

 in 1584, 125,465; at the death of Michel 



I, in IGk'j, 254,361 ; on the accession of 

 Peter I, in 1089, 263,900 square miles, 

 and 16,000,000 inhabitants ; at liis (h-ath in 

 1725, 273,815 square miles, and 20,(MX»,(KX» 

 inhabitants; on the accession of Catherine 



II. in 1763, 319,538 s()uare miles, and 

 25,000,000 inhabitants ; at her (h^ath in 

 1796, 331,830 square miles, and 33,(HtO,000 

 inhabitjmts ; at tlie |)rcsent day, 367,494 

 square miles, and 50,0()0,0(XJ inhabitants. 



The occurreiiees whicli liavo recently 

 taken place in Russia, the extent of her 

 territory, the able, but insidious policy 

 which for some years jiast lias swayed her 

 councils, her great weiglit in tht; scale of 

 European power, the questionable dcj<ree 

 of civilization of her subjects, on which that 

 weight must partially depend, have rendered 

 all information regardiucr that vast emi)ire 

 of considerable importance. From a gen- 

 tleman wlio has lately returned from St. 

 Petersburg, we have received some valuable 

 communications, which may appear in a 

 future number of tiiis magazine : in the in- 

 terim, to complete the list of Russian news- 

 papers inserted in one of our numbers for 

 1823, we present onr readers with the fol- 

 lowing account, obtained from a different 

 source, of the eigliteen new journals pub- 

 lished in the two capitals of the Russian 

 dominions : five of these are jirinted at 

 Moscow, the rest at St. Petersburg. 



Those published at Moscow since 1823, 

 are — 1. Weekly Papfr for Amateurs of 

 Horsea (Jcjenedelnik, &c. &c. ) This 

 journal, edited by Lieutenant General 

 Tzom, a])peared every Monday throughout 

 the year 1823 : since that time it has been 

 publislied monthly, under the title of Me-, 

 moirs for Amateurs for Horses (Zapiski, 



i-c.) 



2. T/te Russian Courier (Rouskoi Vest- 

 nik), conducted by Serge Glinka, com- 

 menced in 1818, and continued for a period 

 of thirteen years, till 1820, when it \\as 

 given up, but re-appeared in January 1824. 

 After the publication of six numbers it was 

 again relinquished; but recommenced in 

 the month of May 1825. This, whicli 

 embraces subjects of history, both ancient 

 and modern, poetry, and extracts from 

 foreign journals, is a very interesting publi- 

 cation, and would be still more so, were it 

 not for its dominant spirit of national 

 prejudice. 



3. TTie Moscow Telegraph (^foskovskoi 

 Telegraplie). This journal of literature, 

 criticism, the arts and sciences, edited by 

 Nicolos Polevoi, appears every fortnight, 



M.M. New Series.— \0L. 1. No. 3. 



and is accompanied by a supplement em- 

 bracing every subject connected witli the 

 fashions and usiiges of socict)'. 



4. The English Literary Journal (f Mos- 

 cow. Tliis paper, in Euglisli and French, 

 was begun in January 1823, by \V. Wens, 

 who tauglit tlie English language at Mos- 

 cow. After struggling for five months, this 

 journal died a natural death. 



5. The I.ddi's' Journal, (Uamskni 

 JoMrH«/), which appears twice in the month, 

 was undertaken in March 1823, by Prince 

 Chalikof, and professes to be little more 

 than a list of the fashions, on the plan of the 

 Frencii Journal dcs .Modes and I'etit Cou- 

 rier des IJames : it fre(iuently, liowever, 

 forgets its destination to enter into hostili- 

 ties against the other Rus>ian journals, 

 whose indignation it has provoked by the 

 spirit of injustice and malevolence wbich 

 pervades its columns. 



Journals published at St. Pctcrsburgh. 

 I. The Register of Discoveries in Natural 

 Phihisophy, Natural History, and the Arts, 

 (Orelearatele Othriti, &c. ', edited hince 

 the month of January 1821', by Professor 

 Nicolas Stekeglof, is an excellent paper, 

 which, conjointly with the Magazine of Na- 

 tural History, published at iSIoscow, by 

 Doigoubski, fills up a vacancy which has 

 long been regretted in Russia, where a taste 

 for useful knowledge has of late years been 

 much diffused. 



2. The Mineralogical Journal (Crovnoi 

 Journal), established by order of the late 

 Emperor Alexander, on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Minister of France, is edited by 

 a committee of scientific members attached 

 to the mines and saltworks. Tlie first 

 number of this imj)ortant collection, dedi- 

 cated to the new discoveries in chemistry, 

 and mineralogy, appeared last July. 



3. The Journal of Military Medicine 

 ( VAenno Meditsinskoi Journal J, published 

 since the commencement of 1823, by the 

 medical branch of the war department, 

 is perfectly adapted to the end in view, 

 and should be in the hands of all medical 

 men. 



4. The Accounts of the Proceedings and 

 Success of the Bible Societies, both Russian 

 and Foreign {Isreetia, Sfc. iS"c. cfc.), were 

 published in Russian and German, during 

 the first ten months of 1824, but relinquish- 

 ed in October of that year, at which time 

 the Russian Bible Societies were inter- 

 dicted by the government — the title of these 

 papers explain the nature of their con- 

 tents. 



5. The Gazette of Commerce (Komert- 

 cheskaia Gazetta), conducted by Valesian 

 Oline, who belongs to the department of 

 foreign commerce, has appeared on every 

 Wednesday and Friday since January 182.5. 

 This paper is indispensable to all mercan- 



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