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.