[FUTURISTS IN HARBIN]. Okno: Literary and Artistic Monthly Journal. Harbin: Okno, 1920. №1.

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- 64 pp.: ill.; 34x25 cm. Illustrated publisher’s cover by artist Nikolai Gushchin. Minor creasing and tears to the edges of the cover. Spine glued with paper, a stamp of the Prague newspaper «The Will of Russia» on the title page. At the end of 1920 the literary monthly « Okno « began to be published. Its editors were the poet S. Alymov and Professor N. Ustryalov of the Shymenov dynasty. Only two issues were published: No. 1 (November 1920) and No. 2 (December 1920). Its collaborators were S. Alymov, N. Aseev, Addas, Venedikt Mart, Arseniy Nesmelov, P. Dryagin, Lev Zander, N. Kostarev, F. Kubka, F. Kamyshnyuk, A. Levitan, R. Storozhuk, S. Tretyakov and M. Shcherbakov. The magazine was published in tetrads of approximately 60 pages; each issue contained poems, short stories, articles, a chronicle of art and culture, theatre, and a bibliography. In addition, drawings by M. Avertov, S. Lukashev, Y. Yarugsky-Erug, N. Gushchin, and others were printed on separate sheets. The editorial board of «Okno» magazine took over the dissemination of futuristic direction. On December 3, 1920, in the Commercial Assembly, the editors of the magazine arranged a report entitled «The Religion of the Revolution». N. Ustryalov was elected chairman. Poet-futurist N. Aseev, who came to Harbin from Vladivostok for a while, was the first to speak on Mayakovsky. The publishing house Okno published several books in the short time of its existence, among them Misteria-bouffe and poems 1917-1919. V. Mayakovsky (1921) and N. Aseev’s The Bomb (1921).