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Magdalena Avietėnaitė
Magdalena Avietėnaitė (22 December 1892 – 13 August 1984) was a Lithuanian journalist, diplomat and a public figure. Biography In 1899, Avietėnaitė and her family emigrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1914 she graduated from the University of Geneva in the field of literature and philosophy. From 1914 to 1920, she edited the weekly newspaper ''Amerikos lietuvis'' (American Lithuanian). Avietėnaitė returned to Lithuania in 1920 in response to the president's Antanas Smetona call to Lithuanian Americans, Lithuanian diaspora on November 2, 1919. In Lithuania, she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Lithuania), Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1940 as a translator, Enciphered, encipherer, secret archive processor and a confidential secretary. From 1924 to 1926, she was the Head of the Lithuanian News Agency ELTA, from 1926 the Head of the Press Bureau, following that, Director of the Press and Information Department. In June 1924, she re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
