Perezvony (Latvian, 1925 - 1929)
Perezvony, literary and art review published in Riga from 1925 to 1929; till 1927 its editor-in-chief was the Russian writer and literary critic Boris ZAITSEV (1881 - 1972), one of the last significant personalities of the Russian Silver Age. A family magazine for collective reading conceived in the best pre-revolutionary traditions with a focus on Russian historical and cultural heritage. Many publications concerned famous Russian artists, Russian icon painting and wooden architecture, the spiritual centres of old Russia (Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, Kiev), the cossacks, Russian estate tradition etc. The special issue n° 32 was dedicated to the celebrating of the Russian Culture Day in Latvia of the time.
Special attention was paid to visual esthetics that was essentially formed by such artists as Sergei VINOGRADOV, Nikolay BOGDANOV-BELSKY or Mstislav DOBUZHINSKY, the author of the magazine cover representing a tree growing from foreign soil and having bells on its branches. The tree reflected symbolically the Russian pre-revolutionary way of life and culture that hadn't been destroyed inspite of its forced exile, but on the contrary was increasing its spiritual potential.