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Sovremennik was a literary journal founded in 1836 by Nikolai Nekrasov and Ivan Panaev. It was a leading journal of Russian literature in the mid-19th century, publishing the works of such writers as Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Sovremennik was a forum for progressive social and political ideas, and its contributors were critical of the government of Tsar Nicholas I.