Global InformationKievskaia starina information
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| Type | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Editor-in-chief | Feofan Lebedintsev (founder) |
| Founded | 1 February 1882 |
| Political alignment | Historically ethographic and literal chronicles |
| Language | Russian, Ukrainian |
| Ceased publication | 1907 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
| Circulation | Kyiv city |
Kievskaia starina (Russian: Киевская старина, literally "Kievan antiquity") was a monthly historically ethographic and literary chronicle. It was published in Kyiv during 1882–1907 in Russian, and then in Ukrainian in 1906.
In this magazine in 1884 was published the first prose work of Taras Shevchenko, published in Russian language, "Kniahynia" ("The Princess").
In the last year of its existence (1906) when censorship on Ukrainian language was dropped, the periodical was renamed Ukraina ("Ukraine") and was published in Ukrainian. The monthly chronicle played a major role in development of Ukrainian culture under the conditions of the Russian Empire. Together with the periodical worked such people as Volodymyr Antonovych, Dmytro Bahaliy, Mykola Kostomarov, Pavlo Zhytetsky, Orest Levytsky, Oleksandr Yefymenko, Oleksandr Lazarevsky, and others.
Main sponsor of the magazine was Hryhorii Galagan.
Along with the magazine, in 1899 Mykola Biliashivskyi started to publish his Arkheologicheskaia letopis Yuzhnoi Rossii (Archaeological chronicle of southern Russia) at first as an addition, but in 1901–1905 as a separate magazine.
After Kievaskaia starina ceased to be published, in 1907 Naumenko continued to publish a monthly magazine under name Ukraina for a year.
In the late Soviet period attempts were made to revive the magazine in 1970s, but only since 1992 Petro Tolochko managed to establish a magazine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyivska starovyna which is published in Ukrainian.