EU support is being sought for the renovation of the 18th century Lithuanian poet Kristijonas Donelaitis' memorial museum in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
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The Lithuanian National Museum has selected exhibits to be displayed at a memorial museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis, a Lutheran pastor and poet who wrote the first classic Lithuanian-language poem, in Chistye Prudy, a village in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, for the next ten years, the daily L...
On Monday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the students of Vilnius University (VU) on the occasion of the New Academic Year and unveiled a renovated monument to Kristijonas Donelaitis, 18-century author credited as the father of Lithuanian-language fiction writing.
The Lithuanian epic poem Seasons (Metai) is a canonic masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775 in the Prussian village of Tolminkiemis. In Metai, rebellious Donelaitis depicted indigenous Lithuanian serfs subjected to mistreatment at the hands of ...
The nearly year-long commemoration of the 300th birth anniversary of Kristijonas Donelaitis pays tribute to the Prussian-Lithuanian pastor and poet whose magnitude of legacy in Lithuanian literature has been shaped up by the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons (Metai), in which he de...
