Welcome to ATLANTIS: In the Courts of Memory, the only regularly published magazine devoted to Imperial Russia, the Romanov Dynasty, and Russian culture. We are a unique journal, founded to provide readers, writers, and researchers with a distinctive forum benefiting from scholarly articles, a free exchange of information and ideas, and encouragement of those who wish to pursue their own studies.

The focus at ATLANTIS is on Russian history and culture, and the Romanov Dynasty. Articles and regular features concentrate on the Imperial House; princely and grand ducal families; members of the Imperial court; the aristocracy; their houses and palaces; museums and archives; Russian cultural life, art and the Orthodox Church; and actual writing experiences related to historical study. Our selection of articles is well researched, scholarly, informative and entertaining.

Beginning in December 2003, we will introduce a new publishing schedule.  We are planning to produce two issues of ATLANTIS per year. One issue will contain the regular diversity of topics and views you have come to expect, while the second will be devoted solely to a pre-selected theme or topic, in the manner of our “Darmstadt” or “Crimean” issues.  Each number will be approximately 200-250 pages in length. 

We are also expanding the scope of ATLANTIS.  After much discussion, we have determined that we would like to begin publishing a very limited number of titles of specialist interest under the ATLANTIS imprint. During the research and writing of our new book, The Fate of the Romanovs, it was necessary for us to translate for ourselves – in part or in whole – several dozens of foreign language books pertinent to Romanov history. Many of them are old books, and most copyrights have lapsed, leaving the works in the public domain. Hesitant to let our translations simply lie in boxes along with the rest of our research, once the book was finished, we had the idea to print and publish small, high quality ATLANTIS editions of each of these books. We know that a lot of these books are difficult if not impossible to come by in their original language, but translated into English, we believe they would be valuable for historians and hobbyists alike.

While the publishing of reprints is certainly not a new concept, and has been done very successfully at Royalty Digest, we envision filling yet another open niche – reprinting very obscure, out of print works originally published in Russian, French, German and Italian, for which we will offer our own translations. At this time, we are leaning towards Alexander Spiridovich’s Les Derniers Annees de la Cour de Tsarskoye Selo as our first ATLANTIS book, although Valentin Speranski’s La Maison de Destination Speciale is completely translated and ready to go to press.

A much longer-term – but particularly important to us -- project is the translation of General Mikhail Diterikhs’ Ubiistvo tsarskoi sem’I I chlenov doma Romanovykh na Urale. The two volumes of this work will doubtless take a couple of years to translate properly, but in this case, with General Diterikhs’ descendants alive and in Russia, we must obtain proper publishing permissions first.

More details on the first reprints and translations will be posted to this website as soon as we can offer more concrete information.

As part of the various new directions at ATLANTIS, we would like to broaden the depth of our content by expanding the focus of our discussion and analysis to encompass the entire history of the Romanov Dynasty and Imperial Russia. Articles therefore need not center on Nicholas II or his contemporaries, but can stretch back hundreds of years to present the myriad of fascinating characters involved in the drama of Imperial Russia.

In the new ATLANTIS, we will particularly welcome insights on lesser-known members of the Dynasty; the aristocracy; life in Imperial Russia; Russian culture and society; the Russian Orthodox Church; and Russian architecture. We know that many of you have admirable wells of knowledge, and we ask that you consider sharing your knowledge and interests with the rest of the ATLANTIS community. We want to encourage strongly all of you – even those who have never written for publication before -- to consider contributing in the future. Whether it be your impressions or review of a new (or old) book or film; memories of a trip to Russia; your thoughts on some aspect of Russian life or culture or the Romanovs themselves; or extensive articles on some aspect of the Dynasty.  As ever, ATLANTIS will continue to publish articles in their entirety.  We are dedicated to the idea of presenting a writer’s complete vision, and we hope that many of you will feel inspired to write for us.  We do pay for articles, and our payment scale may be found at this website on the page devoted to our Editorial Policy.

On behalf of ATLANTIS, we invite you to browse our website, learn more about the magazine, and join other interested, enthusiastic Atlanteans as we combine our distinctive interests and energies to form a truly creative community dedicated to a world which has vanished from experience but not from our hearts.