{"id":1025841,"date":"2026-10-14T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1025841"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T07:23:48","slug":"i-live-only-by-your-letters-molodechno-archivists-present-a-special-edition-of-archival-bulletin-for-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1025841","title":{"rendered":"\u00abI Live Only by Your Letters\u00bb: Molodechno Archivists Present a Special Edition of \u00abArchival Bulletin\u00bb for Mother\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark <strong>Mother\u2019s Day<\/strong>, celebrated on October 14, archivists from <strong>the Zonal State Archive in Molodechno<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yeyAZKzXVK4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prepared a special edition of <strong>the \u00abArchival Bulletin\u00bb media project<\/strong><\/a>. The project is based on a single letter, with <strong>young researcher Milaniya Gorbach \u2014 a student at Molodechno Secondary School No.5 and a member of the \u00abOtvaga\u00bb (Courage) military-patriotic club<\/strong> \u2014 serving as the connecting thread between eras. It was she who had the opportunity to touch history and share with viewers how a mother\u2019s love and a son\u2019s hope helped people endure the hardest of times.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00abMy beloved, dear mother! I am sending you word from a faraway land&#8230; I live only by your letters. Whenever I receive a letter from you, I read it over and over, and it feels as though I can see you\u2026\u00bb<\/em>. These lines were written from the World War I front by <strong>Mikhail Lipsky<\/strong>, a soldier of the 152nd Vladikavkaz Infantry Regiment. To him, his mother was an invisible beacon\u2014a guiding light and the ultimate reason to survive, hold fast, and return home.<\/p>\n<p>On the yellowed sheet of paper, Mikhail had carefully inscribed not only his name but also the precise route for his mother\u2019s reply. Today, this letter is preserved in the Molodechno Zonal State Archive as a priceless witness to the era and a reminder of just how important a mother is to every person.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1-58.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1088499\" class=\"wp-image-1088499 alignnone size-full\" width=\"60%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark Mother\u2019s Day, celebrated on October 14, archivists from the Zonal State Archive in Molodechno prepared a special edition of the \u00abArchival Bulletin\u00bb media project. The project is based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025843,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025841\/revisions\/1025843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}