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Wacław Michniewicz
Wacław Michniewicz (; 15 October 1866 – 14 January 1947) was a Polish-Lithuanian architect active in Vilnius, Lithuania. Early life and education Wacław Michniewicz was born on 15 October 1866 in the village of (Pabaiskas parish), around south of Ukmergė. At that time, Lithuania part of the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Russian Real School in Vilnius in 1888, then studied at the in St. Petersburg. He graduated in 1893 and returned to Vilnius. Career In Vilnius, Michniewicz was first an assistant to Cyprian Maculewicz, then from 1904 an architect and chief engineer of the city of Vilnius. He was a member of the Vilnius branch of the Imperial Russian Technical Society. When the possibility of establishing Polish societies arose in 1905, he was one of the founding members of the Association of Technicians in Vilnius, established on 26 April 1905. In 1912, Michniewicz left the city service and, together with Aleksander Parczewski, founded the design and con ...
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Church Of The Holy Trinity, Gierviaty
The Church of the Holy Trinity (; , ) is a Roman Catholic church in Hyervyaty, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is an example of the Belarusian Neogothic architecture and was built in 1899–1903. The church is a site of cultural heritage of Belarus. History The first parish in Hyervyaty was established in 1526 by the archbishop John. Gradually it fell into decline and in 1621 Eustachy Wołłowicz constructed the new wooden church. It was destroyed by fire in 1736. Almost a hundred years later the philanthropist reconstructed the church. In 1860, Kazimir Domeyko founded the stone bell tower and reconstructed the church in 1862. The last restoration was executed in 1894-1895, but three years later the church was demolished. The modern building was constructed in place of the old one in 1899—1903. Usually the authorship is attributed to architects Wacław Michniewicz and Alaksiej Połazaŭ (1820-1903). However, some sources claim that the design was created by Ignatiy Olshansky, br ...
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Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and two forces that served on separate regulations: the Cossacks, Cossack troops and the Islam in Russia, Muslim troops. A regular Russian army existed after the end of the Great Northern War in 1721.День Сухопутных войск России. Досье
[''Day of the Ground Forces of Russia. Dossier''] (in Russian). TASS. 31 August 2015.
During his reign, Peter the Great accelerated the modernization of Russia's armed forces, including with a decree in 1699 that created the basis for recruiting soldiers, military regulations for the organization of the a ...
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19th-century Polish Architects
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm ce ...
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1947 Deaths
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 – The ''Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, Canadian Citizenship Act'' comes into effect, providing a Canadian citizenship separate from British law. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solv ...
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1866 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The '' Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. February * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 ...
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Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total land area of Germany, and with over 13.08 million inhabitants, it is the list of German states by population, second most populous German state, behind only North Rhine-Westphalia; however, due to its large land area, its population density is list of German states by population density, below the German average. Major cities include Munich (its capital and List of cities in Bavaria by population, largest city, which is also the list of cities in Germany by population, third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg. The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celts, Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Ra ...
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Žeimiai
Žeimiai () is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania the center of the Žeimiai Eldership. As of 2011 it had a population of 860. History Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the imp ... of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators. Polish architect Wacław Michniewicz, who was responsible for designing many buildings in Lithuania, designed the church in the town, and was buried in the churchyard there in 1947. References *''Parts of this article were initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.'' Jonava District Municipality Towns in Lithuania Towns in Kaunas County Kovensky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Lithuania ...
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Kaunas Mosque
The Kaunas Mosque () is a List of World Heritage Sites in Europe, World Heritage-listed Sunni Islam, Sunni Islam, Islamic mosque, located at Tatars Street 6 (), in the Centras (Kaunas), Centras eldership of Kaunas, Lithuania. It is the only mosque in the Kaunas district, one of only four mosques in Lithuania, and the only brick mosque in Lithuania and the Baltic countries. History The history of the Islamic community of Kaunas can be traced to the arrival of Muslim Lipka Tatars in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th century. Cemetery The former Muslim cemetery is located in Ramybė Park, which was previously the Kaunas Old Cemetery from 1847 to 1959, divided between four religions: Islam, Catholic church, Catholicism, Lutheran, Lutheranism, and Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy. The territory of the Muslim Cemetery was divided into two parts: * The first complex was a cemetery. The graveyard was initially dedicated for Tatar Muslims. Besides the graves of the ...
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