Red Field Krasnaya Niva #6 1927

Original vintage Soviet weekly magazine Red Field, issue №2, 15 January 1930. First published in 1922 by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. The cover features a painting Dagestan girl by Eugene Lanceray, a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva. The issue includes a poem about Moscow in the snow with a photograph by N. Petrov; a story by Mikhail Prishvin, a Russian and Soviet novelist, prose writer, and publicist; news from abroad, such as explosions on the French training ship Richelieu, a strike of tram workers in Tokyo, Alexandra Kollontai, a Russian revolutionary, politician, a diplomat at the reception of Plutarco Calles, a general in the Mexican Revolution and a Sonoran politician, serving as President of Mexico from 1924 to 1928; articles about Hamburg; Leonid Leonov, a Soviet novelist, and playwright of socialist realism; art exhibition with the works of artists Igumnov, Shevchenko, Klasson, Staronosov, Ornatskaya, Vysheslavtsev, Berendgof; spread with a drawing of the Moscow Kremlin by the artist A. Kravchenko; theatrical news; drawing On the ice rink by the artist E. Mandelberg, a Soviet theatre artist, poster artist, cartoonist, librettist. Published by Glavlit, 22 pages. Poor condition, the cover and pages are loose, tears, browning.