The Sun of Russia magazine, April 1915

An original and quite rare magazine in very good collector's condition. The format is 245*350 mm. The volume is 32 strips. Lots of color and black-and-white illustrations and photos. Guarantee of authenticity.

The Sun of Russia —the Sun of Russia) is an illustrated weekly magazine. Published in St. Petersburg in 1910-1916 in the publishing house "Kopeyka". Alexander Eduardovich Kogan (1878-1949) was the editor-publisher of the newspaper "Kopeyka" and the weekly "The Sun of Russia", and after emigration — the owner of the Berlin publishing house "Russian Art". The magazine was printed with the help of the newest foreign rotary machines, which were not yet known in Russia at that time. In addition to A. Kogan, the editor of the journal was Z. N. Zhuravskaya. The magazine had 16 pages (8 sheets measuring 245x345 mm) of text and black-and-white photographs, as well as a color illustrated first cover and a large number of advertisements on the second, penultimate and last pages of the cover; the cost of the magazine was 15 kopecks. (at railway stations 20 kopecks.); published reviews of art exhibitions, biographies of young and venerable artists, issued special issues: Arkady Averchenko, Sasha Cherny, Vasily Adikaevsky, Alexander Perfiliev, Nikolai Agnivtsev were printed in the magazine; Ivan Grabovsky placed drawings; the creative path of B. Ye. Efimov began.