The Firebird No. 6, 1922. Monthly literary and artistic illustrated magazine.

The Firebird No. 6, 1922. Monthly literary and artistic illustrated magazine.
Paris. Berlin. Russian art. 1922 [4], 40, 8 p., ill. 31 x 24 cm. In the publisher's cover, 24 x 31.5 cm. Partial loss of the spine.

Zhar-Ptitsa-literary and artistic magazine published by the Russian emigration in 1921-1926 in Berlin and Paris.

"Subscription to a large monthly literary and artistic illustrated magazine "ZHAR-PTITSA"has been opened. The magazine will be published in large monthly issues, including the volume of this issue, with numerous illustrations, on small paper. Some of the illustrations are in colors. Each issue has a special colorful cover. The best Russian artistic and literary forces located abroad take part in the magazine. Each number contains stories, essays, poems, and critical articles. Illustrated reviews of Russian artistic life abroad. Russian theater abroad", - so announced the magazine its creators in the first issue for 1921.

The chief editor was the famous art historian and artist G. K. Lukomsky, the literary Department was headed by prominent poet Sasha Chorny, the editors and the funding took the A. E. Kogan, the technical part was headed by the former head of printing and publishing "Golik and Vilborg" B. G. Scamoni. The magazine actively collaborated with the largest figures of Russian culture.

A total of 14 issues were published. Of these, issues 4-5 were issued under the same cover, as it was a Christmas issue. Numbers 1-13 were published in Berlin, and number 14 was published in Paris.

The magazine's circulation was approximately three hundred copies.

In March 2001, Raymond Clark donated a set of "Firebird"magazines to the Russian cultural Foundation.

Now the complete set of the magazine is in the Russian State Library in the Department of rare books. Some of the articles and reproductions printed in the Firebird have never been reprinted.