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On June 1, 1918, the journal marked the 100th anniversary of the pilot issue of the military theory journal Military Thought published by the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, one of this country's oldest periodicals of the Armed Forces. A kind of Military Thought prototype in the prerevolutionary period of Russian history was the journal Military Collection founded in 1858 on the initiative of Prof. D.A. Milyutin at the Imperial Military Academy of the General Staff. That periodical covered issues of military policy, military art, and other military matters. The journal was extremely popular and helped promote military expertise in the Russian army. The readers will be interested to learn that the first editor of Military Collection was the prominent publicist Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Admittedly, the literary section did not survive beyond 1870, and its first editor had by then been exiled to a hard labor camp in Siberia as a political hazard to the monarchy.
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