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Šviesa Artists' Society
The Šviesa Artists' Society (Lithuanian: ''Panevėžio artistų mylėtojų draugija „Šviesa“''; ) was a short-lived music and drama society established in 1924 by Andrius Domaševičius in Panevėžys. History A socialist, Andrius Domaševičius actively participated in organizing workers' trade unions and other workers' activities. In 1924 he established the Šviesa Artists' Society. The society also had chapters in , Biržai, and Naujamiestis. Although Domaševičius was its chairman, the society was headed by electrician J. Tarvydavičius, and later by actor Stasys Petraitis. The society acted out various plays, such as '' Marat'', ''Tadas Blinda'', Oscar Milosz's ''Two Brothers'', Konstantinas Jasiukaitis's ''Alkani žmonės'' (Hungry People), ''Penktas įsakymas'' (The Fifth Order) and others. The society also had an orchestra, which was headed by Koveris and later by P. Rutkauskas. The members also would recite Julius Janonis's poems. On 17 February 1925, along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrius Domaševičius
Andrius Domaševičius (30 November 1865 – 19 March 1935) was a Lithuanian politician and gynecologist. He was one of the founders and an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, Social Democrat movement in Lithuania. Early life and studies Andrius Domaševičius was born on 30 November 1865 in Panevėžys, Russian Empire. His family was descendants of polonized szlachta. Domaševičius attended school in Šiauliai from 1876 until 1884. During this time, Domaševičius participated in an illegal student circle and became acquainted with the literature of the Russian Narodniks movement. In 1890, he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv University, where he studied medicine. According to contemporaries, it was in Kyiv that Domaševičius became interested in social democracy, social democratic ideas, as well as revolutionary propaganda and Marxism. After his studies in Kyiv, Domaševičius worked in St. Petersburg with a famous Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panevėžys
Panevėžys () is the fifth-largest List of cities in Lithuania, city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, eighth-most-populous city in the Baltic States. it occupies with 89,100 inhabitants. As defined by Eurostat the population of the Panevėžys functional urban area that stretches beyond the city limits is estimated at 124,412 (as of 2022). The largest multifunctional arena in Panevėžys, Kalnapilio Arena, formerly known as Cido Arena, hosted the Eurobasket 2011 group matches. Panevėžys is an important cultural and economic hub in the country's northeast. Located on the banks of the Nevėžis River, the city is known for its strong industrial heritage and vibrant arts scene. Panevėžys is also considered as a gateway to the picturesque landscapes of the Aukštaitija region. The city is still known in the Jewish world for the eponymous Ponevezh Yeshiva. Name The name of the city is derived from the Lithuanian language, Lithuanian hyd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Language
Lithuanian (, ) is an East Baltic languages, East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic languages, Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are approximately 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1 million speakers elsewhere. Around half a million inhabitants of Lithuania of non-Lithuanian background speak Lithuanian daily as a second language. Lithuanian is closely related to neighbouring Latvian language, Latvian, though the two languages are not mutually intelligible. It is written in a Latin script. In some respects, some linguists consider it to be the most conservative (language), conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language that had disappeared through development from other descendant languages. History Among Indo-European languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biržai
Biržai (, also known by several alternative names) is a city in northern Lithuania. Famous for its reconstructed Biržai Castle manor, the whole region is renowned for its many traditional-recipe beer breweries. Name The exact origin of the city name is not known, but it is derived from the Lithuanian word (which means ''birch''). The name of the city in other languages includes ; , (and pre-1917 ); . It is simplified to ''Birzai'' in English. History The city's first written mention dates to 1455. The construction of Biržai Castle began in 1586, and the town was granted Magdeburg Rights in 1589. In 1575, as preparation for the castle's construction, a dam was built at the confluence of the Agluona and Apaščia Rivers, and the artificial Lake Širvėna, covering about , was created. It is the oldest surviving artificial lake in Lithuania. The town's history is closely associated with the Radziwiłł family (Lithuanian: Radvila). Jerzy Radziwiłł was the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naujamiestis, Panevėžys
Naujamiestis (literally "''new town''" in Lithuanian language, Lithuanian) is a small town in Panevėžys County, southwest of Panevėžys, on the right bank of Nevėžio, near a pine forest in northeastern Lithuania. The monument of K. Ulianskas of 1905-1907 stands in the old cemetery of Naujamiestis. for the victims of the revolution - "Angelas", the chapel-mausoleum of the Konkulevičius family. In the neighboring village of Naujamiestis there is a cemetery of the Karaites of Naujamiestis. During the start of winter, the town creates large straw structures in the shapes of various animals, houses, and people. At the end of the festival, thousands of people gather for the ritualistic burning of the straw village. According to the 2011 census, the town had a population of 725. History Naujamiestis has been known since the 16th century. 2nd half. It is likely that during the time of Vytautas, the Karaim was stationed here as a guard unit serving Upytė Castle . 16th century V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stasys Petraitis
Stasys is a popular Lithuanian given name, derived from Slavic name Stanislav. Feminine variation is Stasė. *Stasys Antanas Bačkis (1906–1999), Lithuanian diplomat * tasys Baranauskas (born 1962), Lithuanian footballer * Stasys Barzdukas (born 1906) Lithuanian pedagogue, a figure in the Lithuanian community in the United States , a Lithuanianist *Stasys Eidrigevičius (born 1949), graphic artist *Stasys Girėnas (1893–1933), Lithuanian-American pilot *Stasys Jakeliūnas (born 1958), Lithuanian politician *Stasys Janušauskas (1902–1996), Lithuanian footballer *Stasys Kropas (born 1953), Lithuanian politician and banker *Stasys Lozoraitis (1898–1983), Lithuanian diplomat *Stasys Lozoraitis Jr. (1924–1994), Lithuanian diplomat *Stasys Malkevičius (born 1928), Lithuanian politician *Stasys Matulaitis (1866–1956), Lithuanian activist and politician *Stasys Nastopka (1881–1938), Lithuanian military leader * Stasys Petronaitis (1932–2016), Lithuanian actor *Stasys Povila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Paul Marat
Jean-Paul Marat (, , ; born Jean-Paul Mara; 24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the ''sans-culottes'', a radical voice, and published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. His periodical ''L'Ami du peuple'' (''The Friend of the People'') made him an unofficial link with the radical Jacobin group that came to power after June 1793. His journalism was known for its fierce tone and uncompromising stance toward the new leaders and institutions of the revolution. Responsibility for the September massacres has been attributed to him, given his position of renown at the time, and a paper trail of decisions leading up to the massacres. Others posit that the collective mentality which made them possible resulted from circumstances and not from the will of any particular individual.#Lefebvre, Lefebvre, p. 236 Marat was assassinated by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadas Blinda
Tadas Blinda (1846–1877) was a Lithuanian outlaw and folk hero. Biography He was born in the village of Telšiai District Municipality, Kinčiuliai, Kovno Governorate, in the region of Samogitia, and inherited his father's 40 hectares at the age of 20. He then married, had three daughters, and became the village elder (administrative title), elder. There are several versions of the turning point in his life that led to his later career. One story has it that he participated in the January Uprising, 1863 uprising, and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. Another has it that his landlord, Duke Ogiński family, Ogiński, ordered him to flog some serfs, became angry when Blinda refused, and then struck him with a whip. Blinda responded with a counterattack. After Blinda had chosen to live outside the law, he gathered a band of followers in the dense forests near Byvainė. According to his admirers, he was a latter-day Robin Hood – he stole from the rich and gave to the poor. His det ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Milosz
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz (; ) (28 May 1877 or 15 May 1877 – 2 March 1939) was a French language poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations.Czesław Miłosz, Cynthia L. Haven. Czesław Miłosz. 2006p.203 His literary career began at the end of the nineteenth century during ''Belle Époque, la Belle Époque'' and reached its high point in the mid-1920s with the books ''Ars Magna'' and ''Les Arcanes'', in which he developed a highly personal and dense Christian cosmogony comparable to that of Dante Alighieri, Dante in ''Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy'' and John Milton in ''Paradise Lost''. A solitary and unique twentieth-century Metaphysics, metaphysician, his poems are visionary and often tormented. He was a distant cousin of Polish writer Czesław Miłosz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. Life Oscar Milosz was born in Čareja (Chereya), then Minsk Governorate, Russian E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Janonis
Julius Janonis (4 April 1896 – 30 May 1917) was a Lithuanian poet and writer. Born to a family of poor peasants, he began writing and translating poems at the age of 14. Learning from Maironis, he wrote about nature and suffering of the poor. His first poems were published in 1912. While still a student, he began contributing articles to Lithuanian press and joined activities of leftist ''aušrininkai''. He was a social-democrat but leaned more and more towards communism and his poetry became more and more political agitation. His views become even more radical when during World War I he evacuated to Voronezh and later Petrograd. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) and was imprisoned twice for revolutionary activities. He contracted tuberculosis and, unwilling to become a burden, took his life at 21. In the Lithuanian SSR, Janonis was hailed as the "first poet of the proletariat". Biography Early life and education in Biržai Janonis was born in n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Lithuanian Coup D'état
The 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état ( Lithuanian: ) was a military coup d'état in Lithuania that replaced the democratically elected government with a authoritarian regime led by Antanas Smetona. The coup took place on 17 December 1926 and was largely organized by the military; Smetona's role remains the subject of debate. The coup brought the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, the most conservative party at the time, to power. Previously it had been a fairly new and insignificant nationalistic party. By 1926, its membership reached about 2,000 and it had won only three seats in the parliamentary elections. The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, the largest party in the Seimas at the time, collaborated with the military and provided constitutional legitimacy to the coup, but accepted no major posts in the new government and withdrew in May 1927. After the military handed power over to the civilian government, it ceased playing a direct role in political life. Background Lithu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
