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Vol. I, No. 3 NAŠA NIVA
by Alexander Nadson On the 23rd of November 1906 there appeared in Vilna the first number of the Byelorussian weekly journal Naša Niva (Our Cornfield). If one excepts its short-lived predecessor Naša Dola (Our Fate) which ran to only six issues, it was the first lawful Byelorussian paper to be published in the Russian empire. During the subsequent nine years of its existence it became a focal point of the Byelorussian national renaissance movement. its merits are particularly great in the cultural field, and it may be said without any risk of exaggeration that modern Byelorussian literature ... was born on the pages of Naša Niva... back |