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On Castle
Hill, Vilnius. Photo: Inga Kutavičius. July 2011. |
| Vincas Kudirka
(1858-1899) was a Lithuanian poet and
physician and the author of both the music and
lyrics of the Lithuanian National Anthem, ‘Tautiška giesmė’.
He studied history and philosophy in Warsaw and,
later, medicine. He was arrested as a subversive for
having a copy of ‘Das
Kapital’ in his
possession, and was expelled from university. In the
same time that he started to write poetry, he became
more active in the Lithuanian
national rebirth movement.
Together with other Lithuanian students in Warsaw,
he founded the secret society Lietuva
("Lithuania"). The following year the society began
publishing the clandestine newspaper Varpas ("The
Bell"), which Kudirka edited and contributed to for
the next ten years. On July 5, 2009, this statue of
Vincas Kudirka was unveiled near Gediminas Avenue in
Vilnius. Photo: © Albert Hagenaars, July 2011. |
| Statue of
national poet Maironis (Jonas Mačiulis),
Rotuses Aikste,
Kaunas. Photo: Albert Hagenaars. |
| Kryžių
Kalnas / Cross Hill, 10 km north of Šiauliai. Photo:
Siti Wahyuningsih. |
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The
geograpical centre of Europe, 25 km north of
Vilnius. Latitude 54ş 54ş, Longitude 25ş 19ş. |
