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The exhibition called The Russia We Saved has begun to work in the UN building, TASS reports. It opened on September 27 in the margins of the UN General Assembly. The exposition tells the story of the Russian-language press overseas. Its first visitors were Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Belarusian counterpart, Vladimir Makei.
Among the exhibits are newspapers, magazines, almanacs, which were published in the United States at different times. They are supplemented by historical photographs.
There are real rarities - newspapers, magazines, books, published in the United States in Russian, including the number of the first Russian newspaper overseas Alaska Herald. It was released by priest Agapiy Goncharenko, who was arrested in the nineteenth century for criticizing the autocracy. He was forced to go abroad and in 1868 founded the first Russian newspaper in the United States in San Francisco.
The Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New Russian Word) newspaper can also be seen at the exhibition. It was founded in 1910 in New York. The newspaper existed for almost a hundred years, it is the oldest continuously published Russian-language newspaper in the world.
The literary almanacs Experiments, Russian Journal, Native Wilderness, as well as the Russian American newspaper also became exhibits. For two years, it was headed by Sergey Dovlatov.
A book by Professor Nikolai Grot “The Moral Ideals of Our Time” is also present at the exhibition. It was given to the first reader of the New York Public Library on the day of its opening on May 24, 1911.
Russkiy Mir
