Old Nuuk Old Nuuk Old Nuuk is a neighborhood of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Old Nuuk was formerly the site of the Moravian mission of New Herrnhut (; ). The missionaries Matthaeus Stach, Christian Stach, and Christian David arrived in 1733 and had won enough converts to formally established the settlement in 1747. It was named for the community established by the Count of Zinzendorf at Berthelsdorf in Saxony which became the center of the Moravian Church. The Moravian Brethren Mission House was raised the same year and was the first church to be constructed in Greenland (at that point, the
150 000 000 that Gosizdat printed 5 thousand copies of the poem which he found "pretentious and dodgy." On 6 May 1921 in the course of one of the Soviet government's meetings Lenin forwarded a note to Lunacharsky: "You should be ashamed of yourself, having supported the printing of 5 thousand copies of Mayakovsky's "150 000 000". Its nonsensical, utterly silly and pretentious. I reckon no more than 1 of 10 books of this ilk should be published, and in 1500 copies maximum, for libraries and oddballs who enjoy reading such things. You, Lunacharsky, should be whipped for your Futurism. Lenin." On the