# Sergey Shubinsky > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sergey_Shubinsky > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sergey_Shubinsky.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Shubinsky > Source revision: 1351835116 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Russian general and historian (1834–1913)}} thumb|165px|Sergey N. Shubinsky '''Sergey Nikolayevich Shubinsky''' ({{langx|ru|Серге́й Никола́евич Шуби́нский}}; 1834–1913) was a Russian [historian](/source/historian) and [journalist](/source/journalist) who edited two widely read magazines concerned with the history of [Imperial Russia](/source/Imperial_Russia).Глинский Б. Б. Сергей Николаевич Шубинский. (1834—1913 гг.). Биографический очерк. — СПб.: Тип. А. С. Суворина, 1913. ==Career== Shubinsky had a successful military career from 1854 onward, retiring with the rank of [major general](/source/major_general) in 1887. He developed a keen interest in the comparatively recent history of his country while collecting hitherto unpublished anecdotes about [Grigory Potemkin](/source/Grigory_Potemkin). Shubinsky edited an illustrated monthly periodical, ''{{ill|Old and New Russia|ru|Древняя и Новая Россия}}'', in 1875–1879, before setting up a more widely distributed magazine, ''[The Historical Herald](/source/The_Historical_Herald)'', in 1880. He remained in charge of the periodical until his death in 1913. The publisher was [Aleksey Suvorin](/source/Aleksey_Suvorin). Shubinsky also authored a splattering of historical articles for the [Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary](/source/Brockhaus_and_Efron_Encyclopedic_Dictionary). Shubinsky's main rivals in the realm of Russian historical journalism were [Pyotr Bartenev](/source/Pyotr_Bartenev), the editor of ''[The Russian Archive](/source/The_Russian_Archive)'', and [Mikhail Semevsky](/source/Mikhail_Semevsky) with his own periodical, ''[Old Times in Russia](/source/Russkaya_Starina)''. == References == {{reflist}} ==Sources== * {{cite Efron|Шубинский, Сергей Николаевич}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shubinsky, Sergey}} Category:1834 births Category:1913 deaths Category:19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Category:19th-century journalists from the Russian Empire Category:19th-century military personnel from the Russian Empire Category:20th-century Russian historians Category:20th-century Russian journalists Category:Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery Category:Clan of Nałęcz Category:Imperial Russian major generals Category:Magazine founders from the Russian Empire Category:People from Moscow Category:People from Moskovsky Uyezd --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sergey Shubinsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Shubinsky) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Shubinsky?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.