Партизанская, 4а Тобольская комплексная научная станция УрО РАН, РФ, 626152, Тобольск, ул. им. <...> , 15 В статье охарактеризован поколенческий дискурс журнала «Современник» и полемика вокруг суда (1866) по поводу статьи Ю.Г. Жуковского «Вопрос о молодом поколении». <...> Ключевые слова: общественная мысль России, вторая половина XIX – начала ХХ в., история журналистики, поколенческий дискурс. <...> KHUDYAKOV WORD AND DEED “OF THE YOUNG GENERATION”: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE MAGAZINE “SOVREMENNIK” Omsk State Pedagogical University, 4а, Partizanskaya str., Omsk, 644099, Russian Federation Tobolsk complex scientifi c station UB RAS 15, Acad. <...> Osipova Str., Tobolsk, 626152, Russian Federation The article describes the generational discourse of “Sovremennik” magazine in the 1860s and the social polemics around the trial initiated in respect of publication of Yu.G. <...> The sources include the texts on generational issues published in “Sovremennik” magazine in 1855–1856; the newspaper publications about the trial against the employees of the magazine; the memoirs of trial participants; the memoirs of the Sixtiers about the impact of the magazine on their world outlook; unpublished clerical sources which cast light on the course of the trial. <...> The magazine had been actively exploiting the generational rhetoric since the mid-1850s based on the idea of continuity of generations of fathers and sons, typical for a traditional society. <...> Like the other “thick magazines” “Sovremennik” described the history of literature and public thought by constructing the models of literature generations. <...> “Sovremennik” not just tried to become the “ruler of the minds” of the educated youth, it also tried to infl uence their social behavior, using <...>