 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).It competed with and quickly replaced more conservative "Žemaičių ir Lietuvos apžvalga".The magazine, 32–60 pages in length, had a circulation of about 2,000 copies and was published monthly.