The salon of E.V. Bogdanovich and his wife Alexandra Viktorovna was a notable phenomenon in St. Petersburg life of the late XIX - early XX centuries. His regular visitor was A. S. Suvorin, who gradually became in the 1880s. the most influential figure in the metropolitan press. It is especially interesting to trace the dynamics and nature of Suvorin's relations with the Bogdanovichs from the late 1870s to the early 1890s, when “Novoe Vremya” became a leading political publication. Since the mid-1880s, their mutual support has become less and less unconditional, while Suvorin's refusal to support him during his “disgrace” of 1888 E.V. Bogdanovich took it as a betrayal. However, relations soon recovered.