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Kievskaia starina

ethographic and literary chronicle

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4220180
Source-derived summary

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 the Russian language, "Knyaginya" ("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 Hryhoriy 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.

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“Kievskaia starina” enters the record as ethographic and literary chronicle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kievskaia, starina and ethographic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 1907, 1906, 1884—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1882-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kievskaia, starina and ethographic.
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“Kievskaia starina” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kievskaia, starina and ethographic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4220180. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1882, 1907, 1906 and 1884.

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This entry incorporates text from Kievskaia starina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.