In 1779, the First lady's magazine appeared in Russia. It
was called "Fashionable Monthly Publication, or Library
for a Lady's Ensemble. Same as in Europe, the chief editor
and publisher of the monthly was male, Nikolai Novikov.
While the European magazines were full of vivid images
and were devoted primarily to fashion, the Russian
publisher had a goal to provide ladies with pleasant
reading for passing their time. Among other things, the
magazine published poems, prose, jokes, and translated
foreign. The magazine even published a compilation of
"most curious facts of life," as many contemporary
women's journals do.