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Pilotiškės
Pilotiškės is a village in Prienai District Municipality, Kaunas County, Lithuania. In 2001 its population was 44. In 2021 it dropped to 17. The village is best known as the birthplace of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Lithuanian poet and writer, Justina Sinkevičiūtė "V. Mykolaičio-Putino gimtinė ir Pilotiškių kaimo padavimai"/ref> and there is Putinas's house museum in his birth home. The mound Krušakalnis by the village was described in Putinas's novel ' (''In the Shadow of the Altars'') under the name Aušrakalnis, and the mound has become known as Aušrakalnis since then. ("The Legend of how Krušakalnis became Aušrakalnis"), ''Lietuvos muziejų kelio'' ("The Road of Lithuanian Museums" program) References Villages i ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Vincas Mykolaitis, known by his pen name Putinas (literally ''Viburnum'') (6 January 1893 in Pilotiškės, Suwałki Governorate – 7 June 1967 in Kačerginė), was a Lithuanian poet and writer. He was also a priest, but renounced his priesthood in 1935. Lithuanian Classical Literature AnthologyBiography Retrieved on 2007-09-22 Biography In 1909, Mykolaitis enrolled to the Seinai Priest Seminary, after few years he published his first poem. In 1915, he was ordained as a priest, however he questioned his mission as a priest. Later he continued studies at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. In St. Petersburg, Mykolaitis published his first collection of poems in 1917. After St. Petersburg, Mykolaitis continued his studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and received doctoral degree in 1922. After studies in western Europe Mykolaitis settled in Lithuania, teaching at the University of Lithuania. During his stay in France, Mykolaitis started to wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |