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[2] Its staff was based mostly in Mosėdis (where Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas worked as a vicar) and Kretinga Monastery (where several priests were deported due to anti-Tsarist activities).

[5] Because Lithuanian-language press in the Latin alphabet was banned in Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), the periodical had to be smuggled across the border.

It advocated against various Russification policies, particularly the Russian government schools, and urged resistance to Polonization and promoted the Lithuanian National Revival.

[7] Its editors were Felicijonas Lelis (1896), Domininkas Tumėnas (1896–97), Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1897–1902; reassigned to Vadaktėliai [lt] he was unable to attend day-to-day needs of the magazine),[3] Antanas Milukas (1902–04).

[8] Its noted contributors included Kazys Bizauskas, Liudas Gira, Justinas Staugaitis, Antanas Vileišis.

It was edited by Domas Jasaitis (1968–75), Petras Maldeikis (1976–83), Algirdas Jonas Kasulaitis (1984–91), Audronė Viktorija Škiudaitė (1993–2000).