Kievlyanin
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Editor | Vitaly Shulgin, Dmitry Pikhno, Vasily Shulgin |
| Founded | 1864 |
| Language | Russian |
| Ceased publication | 1919 |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Russian Empire |
| Circulation | 70 thousand (1919) |
Kievlyanin (Russian: Киевлянин, Kievan) was a conservative Russian newspaper, published in Kiev in 1864–1919.
Kievlyanin was launched by the Russian Empire's Southwestern Krai administration, admittedly with a view to promoting the russification of the region. This newspaper's credo: "This is the Russian, Russian, Russian land!" was stated in its very first issue by the paper's original editor, the Kiev University professor Vitaly Shulgin.
After Shulgin's death Dmitry Pikhno took over in 1879. The newspaper (which prior to that was coming out three times a week) became a daily; now it appealed to the liberals as well as the Russian nationalists and featured a fine literary section. Alexander Kuprin chose Kievlyanin for serializing his 1898 Olesya novelet in it. The respectable theatre critic Izmail Alexandrovsky published there regularly, under the pen name Iz. Alsky.
During and after the 1905 Revolution Kievlyanin's position shifted to the right; Vitaly Shulgin's stepson Vasily became one of the key contributors and most of its leaders were now members of the , the or the Union of the Russian People.
In September 1913 Vasily Shulgin became Kievlyanin's editor-in-chief, and the newspaper started to drift towards the so-called 'progressive nationalists' group led by Anatoly Savenko. It severed ties with the Russian ultra-nationalists who were now accusing the publication of being 'pro-Jewish' and anti-Monarchist. Indeed, unlike all the pro-Monarchist publications, Kievlyanin managed to survive the February Revolution and was closed only in February 1918, as the Ukrainian separatists took over the Central Rada. Shulgin made an attempt to move the publication to the Don region, but the White Army general Mikhail Alekseyev refused to support it.
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