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In 1862, in St. Petersburg began to be issued first and the world's only dedicated monthly magazine about crafts. He was called "Russian craftsmen".

Handicraft production in the XIX century paid much attention. Even in 1857 when Alexander II signed a document containing a significant phrase: "Small crafts , popular among the people, have the same significance as plants and factories, and have a tremendous impact on the economic life of People ".

Initiator and publisher of Russian craftsmen "became peterbergskaya Crafts council. Editor in chief, was elected A. Beggrov. According to the magazine, the total number of craft class in St. Petersburg reaches 70-80 thousand people. Officially in the trades council of St. Petersburg were 12 thousand schools, another 3 thousand working without registration.
With the filing Crafts council magazine regularly published various officials, including government documents. It also publishes the information for those wishing to create a nonprofit and commercial associations of artisans, opinion polls, reports on the life and health of the masters, journeymen, students, etc. Generally, the dry title of the journal did not reflect the entire scope and breadth of information published. In fact, the magazine wrote about everything. Among its sections was even "Fashion and patterns. Yet the priority given to technical issues, such as: laying a transatlantic cable, aluminum production in Europe, the international industrial exhibitions and participation in Russia, pavements and street lighting.
Technical section was actually a magazine in the magazine. Topics could be anything: the use of liquid glass in the repair of the Alexander Column on Palace Square, the production and processing of aluminum, waterproofing tar gas and water pipes, bonding of leather and metal, compressed air for water, sidewalk cleaning machine, colored cement, steam laundry in mechanical laundries, etc., etc., etc. It is here that the information was placed on the invention, the electric guard (the current security alarm), combination lock and an artificial tree "as the material for the manufacture of joinery. Artificial tree in the XIX century. consisted of ground bark, sawdust, water, cotton wool, glue and ash.

Unfortunately this wonderful magazine lasted only 5 years. In 1867 it was closed

on materials of the newspaper "Business Petersburg"