Career
Shubinsky had a successful military career from 1854 onward, retiring with the rank of Major General in 1887. He developed a keen interest in the comparatively recent history of his country while collecting hitherto unpublished anecdotes about Prince Potemkin. Shubinsky edited an illustrated monthly periodical, Old and New Russia, in 1875-1879, before setting up a more widely distributed magazine, The Historical Herald, in 1880.
He remained in charge of the periodical until his death in 1913.
The publisher was Aleksey Suvorin. Shubinsky also authored a splattering of historical articles for the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
