Amateur. 2023. No. 089 May

The main theme of the magazine "Amateur" No. 089 (May 2023) is the third branch

Nikolaev thirty years - the longest "frosts" of the Russian XIX century. The cornerstone of the regime during these years was a political police, a conservative ideology, alluding censorship and bureaucracy, ready to meekly fulfill any bossy order. The specialized political police of the Russian Empire was born from an uprising on December 14. However, not suddenly, not spontaneously, but according to the "thought -out plan". Young people of the Nikolaev era felt like the heirs of the Decembrists. And therefore, no matter what society they founded - literary, discussion, philosophical - sooner or later concerned politics. "The real engines of the order were lower officials who cleaned the papers. This drawback was expressed by the observant emperor himself, who once said that the emperor, but the ceremotors, were ruled by Russia. The characteristic of the era of Nicholas I, given by Vasily Klyuchevsky, is apparently not far from the truth. This was a period of gradual twisting of censorship nuts. For centuries, Russia hesitated between a pan -European way of development and its "special way", which invariably meaning the unremarkable arbitrariness of power with the subsequent national disaster. After the establishment of the gendarmes corps, the officers immediately were under close supervision - after all, the Decembrists left the army. Since then, mutual hostility has gone. The gendarmes were annoyed that the army team did not understand the importance of the "protection of the foundations", and the officers insulted that they were looking for enemies among them. In the rule of Nicholas I, the Russian army was the largest in the world, and the population increased by almost a half times.

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In "Attributions" Alexander Kibovsky will tell about new riddles and finds, Alexei Kuznetsov in the "process" - about the moral and legal side of justice, and Yulia Demidenko In the "wardrobe" - about the outfit of Colombrine, the character of the comedy del arte. In the comic book (event of May) - the murder of False Dmitry I. The readers are also waiting for the turns to see, read, play, as well as crossword puzzle and much more