From 20 November to 31 December, the Book Museum exhibits original numbers of the first Belarusian newspaper Muzhytskaya prauda timed to its 150th anniversary.
Muzhytskaya prauda (Mużyckaia praūda) is the first Belarusian-illegal newspaper. It was printed in Latin. From 1862 to 1863 K. Kalinovsky with F. Ryazhensky, S. Sangin, V. Vrublevsky published this newspaper in Grodno.
There were seven numbers: № 1–6 (July–December, 1862), № 7 (June, 1863). The newspaper was distributed in Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and in the north-western regions of Russia.
Every number was signed under a pseudonym "Yaska is a man from Vіlno" and was devoted to a specific topic. Publications differed by acute social awareness-campaign orientation. Articles were made as conversations; their content was similar to the Russian literature of that time and had revolutionary-democratic direction. These editions were focused mostly on issues of land and freedom, political and socio-economical inequality, national independence.
The last number had been already published in the rebellion. It contains an appeal to a general armed struggle for a better life. The language of texts in the newspaper Muzhytskay prauda is deeply national, emotional, and full of folk symbols, literary epithets, metaphors, similes; it includes the sources of journalistic genre which began to develop in the new Belarusian literature.
The National Library of Belarus kept three numbers of the newspaper Muzhytskaya prauda (№ 3, 6, 7).
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