Zhivopisets

{{Short description|1772–3 Russian weekly satire magazine}}

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Zhivopisets ({{Langx|ru|"Живописец"}}, which may be translated as Painter) was a Russian weekly magazine, published by Nikolay Novikov{{cite book|author=Gary Marker|title=Publishing, Printing, and the Origins of the Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsD_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|access-date=29 September 2015|date=14 July 2014|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-5494-3|page=96}} in Saint Petersburg from April 1772 to June 1773.{{cite book|author=Raffaella Faggionato|title=A Rosicrucian Utopia in Eighteenth-Century Russia: The Masonic Circle of N.I. Novikov|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-MnyJ-8tl0C&pg=PA270|access-date=29 September 2015|date=18 January 2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-3487-9|page=270}}

Zhivopisets was notable for its political sharpness and variety of satirical genres. The magazine published Отрывок путешествия в*** И*** Т*** (A Fragment of a Journey to*** I*** T***) and Письма к Фалалею (Letters to Falaley), which contained harsh criticism of the Russian serfdom. Zhivopisets ridiculed a blind admiration with everything French, careerism, and vices of the gentry. The magazine was closed down by the authorities in 1773.