Rykantai is a village in
Trakai district municipality,
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
, 7 kilometres north-west of
Lentvaris. The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The
Neris River flows north of the village. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it has 281 inhabitants.
Rykantai is known as one of the first reformats settlement in Lithuania. Rykantai is mentioned in
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
's novel
War and Peace as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.
References
Villages in Vilnius County
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