ANGLOMANIA IN RUSSIA: MAGAZINES ON NATURE AND HUNTING

The paper presents the study of the history of 19th century magazines on nature and hunting. It analyses the role of the hunting culture of England in the development of nature and hunting magazines in Russia. The study materials are the following magazines: Zhurnal konnozavodstva i okhoty (Magazine on Horse Breeding and Hunting) (1842–1864), Zhurnal okhoty (Magazine on Hunting) (1858–1860, 1862) and Zhurnal okhoty i konnozavodstva (Magazine on Hunting and Horse Breeding) (1869–1874). It became evident that the texts have many reprints from foreign magazines, such as English The Sporting Magazine (1793–1870) and Field: The Country Gentleman's Newspaper (1853–now), French Journal des Haras (1828–1862), L'Illustration (1843–1944), etc. This situation is due to the fact that, firstly, specialized magazines appeared in Europe somewhat earlier than in Russia, and had more experience in covering special topics; secondly, Russia has long been influenced by European fashion – French and English, and adopted the different experiences of its foreign neighbors; Thirdly, Russia has not yet developed a tradition of presenting hunting in the periodical press and in literature as a mental value, as a source of satisfaction of everyday and everyday human needs.; Fourth, the editors of the first Russian metropolitan publications experienced a shortage of articles, as they did not establish contacts with correspondents from the regions.