Russian Press Exhibition.

Pravda.Ru:

The vast but little-known world of the Russian press abroad, ranging from Hertsen's newspapers Kolokol (The Bell) and Polyarnaya Zvezda (The Polar Star) to the newspapers Our Texas, Seulsky Vestnik (The Seoul Herald) and Russkie Emiraty (The Russian Emirates) are on view at a Moscow exhibition for the first-ever time. The «Russia that We Have Saved» exhibition opened here on Wednesday within the framework of the 10th World Congress of the Russian Press, which is currently under way at the Moscow Centre of International Trade.

Chief of the Exhibitions Department of the Russian State Library (RSB) Yelena Novokreshchenova told Itar-Tass that visitors of the exposition were able to trace the entire history of the Russian press abroad, starting from the mid-19th century to our days.

The exhibition could be conventionally divided into three sections. The first one features editions of the Russian pre-revolutionary press. «an original 1857 copy of the newspaper Kolokol, which was published by Hertsen and Ogarev, a 1857 edition of the newspaper Polyarnaya Zvezda, and the Bolshevik newspaper Iskra (The Spark) hold pride of place among the exhibits on view, Novokreshchenova noted."