Walking stick
- ID-nummer
- 2023.007.001
- Titel
- Walking stick
- Objektkategori
- Kläder & assessorer
- Publik beskrivning
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This walking stick was used by Mikhail Gorbachev in his later years. After his death, Dmitry Muratov received it as a gift from Gorbachev's daughter Irina Virganskaya. Gorbachev had helped finance the founding of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which under Muratov's editorship engaged in critical investigative journalism.
Muratov remembers how Gorbachev once in a restaurant pounded the table with his stick and said: "First of all, listen to my UN speech!" He picked up a sheet and read: "BAN THE WAR." Muratov asked: "Was that all?" Gorbachev replied: "Is there anything to add?" And pounded the table once more with his stick.
Dmitry Muratov donated the walking stick to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2023. - Location
- Permanent exhibition
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