Spontaneous magnetisation of (100) and (010) surfaces of a MnF_{2} single crystal in the antiferromagnetic state is discovered. A sign of the surface magnetisation is determined by a difference in dielectric constants ε of MnF_{2} and ambient matter: magnetisation is directed to the substance with a smaller ε.
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