a liberal publication, "svetoch" advocated the ideas of moderate social reforms, supported the 1861 emancipation act and positioned itself as an intermediary between the feuding slavophiles and westerners in russia. the translated works of foreign writers constituted the considerable part of its literary section. among the russian authors who contributed to "svetoch" regularly, were pyotr weinberg, apollon grigoryev, mikhail dostoyevsky, lev mei, dmitry minayev, alexey pleshcheyev, nikolai strakhov, nikolai shcherbina. the "caricature leaflet" (карикатурный листок) came out as a monthly supplement to "svetoch".