Moskva magazine was established in 1957, originally as an organ of the
RSFSR Union of Writers and its Moscow department. Its first editor was Nikolay Atarov (1957–1958), succeeded by Yevgeny Popovkin (1958–1968). It was during his time that
Mikhail Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita was published for the first time (in the December 1966 and January 1967 issues). The magazine's third editor-in-chief
Mikhail Alekseyev brought its selling figures to record highs (775,000 in 1989) and made history too by publishing
Nikolay Karamzin's
History of the Russian State (1989–1990) for the first time since 1917. In the 1990s and 2000s, under
Vladimir Krupin (1990–1992) and
Leonid Borodin (1992–2008),
Moskva, along with
Nash Sovremennik magazine and
Alexander Prokhanov-edited
Den and
Zavtra newspapers, moved into the vanguard of the so-called 'spiritual opposition' movement. In 1993 the subtitle, The Magazine of Russian Culture, was added to its title page. ==References ==