11 September 2025, St. Petersburg, XI St. Petersburg International United Cultures Forum. On the platform of the 11th St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures, a presentation of the third issue of the revamped magazine “Nashe Nasledie” took place. “Nashe Nasledie” is a modern iteration of a publication with a thirty-year history that covers museum collections and archives, private collectors and their holdings, new names in art, and much more.
The presentation was attended by the magazine’s editor in chief Sergey Burmistrov and the Director of the State Russian Museum Alla Manilova. The speakers spoke about the revival of the magazine, the shift in its concept, and plans for the forthcoming fourth issue.
Speaking about the magazine’s history, its rebirth, and future development, Sergey Burmistrov noted: “If we speak about the magazine ‘Nashe Nasledie’, then on the one hand it is an entirely new project, and on the other hand it is an old project with a long history. The magazine, as many of you probably know, first appeared in 1988 with the support of academician Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev and the USSR Culture Foundation. And of course at that time it was a sensation, it was a window onto culture, a window onto international life. Wonderful materials were published there, new names emerged, people whom we now know and without whom we simply cannot imagine Russian literature and Russian art.
An incredible indicator of the magazine’s success back then was its print run, 250,000 copies. It is hard to imagine today, but it reached its readers within one week. ... Today we are trying to write not only about art and culture, because the notion of ‘our heritage’ is everything that surrounds us in every sphere of our lives.”
Alla Manilova spoke about why the magazine should continue its story in contemporary Russia: “I accepted Sergei’s invitation to join the editorial board without hesitation. ... There was a time when the ‘thick journals’ paused for almost several decades. But our country, with its intellectual centers and such a powerful stratum of culture and science, cannot live without that genre known as the thick journal. They existed in Pushkin’s day, they existed in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and in many ways they set the direction for the intelligentsia, for the thinking class, they largely set the course of life. That is why I believe in the future of such a magazine; there should be many of them.
It has a wonderful name that truly goes back to Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev.”
At the end of the presentation, Sergey Burmistrov spoke about the concept of the next issue: "The magazine is published quarterly. The fourth issue, which will be released at the end of the year, will be thematic and devoted to the history of photography.”