Comments on: The Russians invented blogging http://siberianlight.net/the-russians-invented-blogging/ The Russia Blog Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://siberianlight.net/the-russians-invented-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-5889 Andy Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:04:06 +0000 http://www.siberianlight.net/?p=691#comment-5889 Interesting. There aren't a lot of sources on "Year 4338" out there. About the only page I could find that offered a clue was this page... http://contento.best.vwh.net/t114.html#A2634 ... in which "Year 4338" is listed as a short story in an anthology of Russian science fiction. No date is given for the short story but my best guess is that the short story was published in 1837 and, at the time of his death in 1869, Odoyevskiy was working on a novel expanded from the original story. Interesting. There aren’t a lot of sources on “Year 4338″ out there. About the only page I could find that offered a clue was this page…

http://contento.best.vwh.net/t114.html#A2634

… in which “Year 4338″ is listed as a short story in an anthology of Russian science fiction. No date is given for the short story but my best guess is that the short story was published in 1837 and, at the time of his death in 1869, Odoyevskiy was working on a novel expanded from the original story.

]]> By: Chris Black http://siberianlight.net/the-russians-invented-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-5888 Chris Black Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:51:23 +0000 http://www.siberianlight.net/?p=691#comment-5888 I was rather suspicious of this story - could it be a Russian April Fool , perhaps? However it seems genuine. The Black Family's battered 1961 McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union describes Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevskiy (1804-1869) as a writer and musical critic who wrote a collection of philosophical fantasies "Russian Nights" published in 1844. However according to a web-page I found: http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6607-6.cfm Odoyevskiy was still in the middle of writing "Year 4338" when he died. So I'm not sure how this matches up with 1837. But it still looks he was the first fellow to think of blogging. I was rather suspicious of this story – could it be a Russian April Fool , perhaps? However it seems genuine. The Black Family’s battered 1961 McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union describes Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevskiy (1804-1869) as a writer and musical critic who wrote a collection of philosophical fantasies “Russian Nights” published in 1844.

However according to a web-page I found: http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6607-6.cfm
Odoyevskiy was still in the middle of writing “Year 4338″ when he died. So I’m not sure how this matches up with 1837.

But it still looks he was the first fellow to think of blogging.

]]> By: Dlutskiy http://siberianlight.net/the-russians-invented-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-5887 Dlutskiy Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:33:20 +0000 http://www.siberianlight.net/?p=691#comment-5887 I believe the first blogger is Dostoyevskiy with his "Writer's Diary". It's a real blog in form and in essence: short stories, political rants, philosophical musings, etc. If only one could so much money on blogging as Dostoyevskiy did. I believe the first blogger is Dostoyevskiy with his “Writer’s Diary”. It’s a real blog in form and in essence: short stories, political rants, philosophical musings, etc. If only one could so much money on blogging as Dostoyevskiy did.

]]> By: curson http://siberianlight.net/the-russians-invented-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-5886 curson Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:05:48 +0000 http://www.siberianlight.net/?p=691#comment-5886 That's nice... never heard of this before. Thank you for pointing this to me :) That’s nice… never heard of this before.
Thank you for pointing this to me :)

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