title: THE ROLE OF THE CAPITAL CITY MAGAZINES IN PRESENTING THE KALMYK ETHNOS TO THE RUSSIAN AUDIENCE IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE XIX CENTURY
abstract: The purpose of the study was to specify the representation of the Kalmyk ethnic group in St. Petersburg and Moscow magazines in the fi rst decades of the XIX century. The study of publications in the journals Vestnik Evropy, Syn Otechestva, Otechestvennye Zapiski, Sibirskiy Vestnik, Severny Arkhiv and other included the volume and details of information about the Kalmyks, the availability of historical and ethnographic information, the characteristics of the ethnic group and / or its individual 
journal: Sign problematic field in mediaeducation