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State Council Of Lithuanians In Russia
Petrograd Seimas ( or ) was a conference of Lithuanian activists in Petrograd, Russian Republic, held on to discuss the political future of Lithuania. Citing the right of self-determination, the delegates discussed whether Lithuania should seek autonomy or full independence. While it failed to unite Lithuanian activists, it helped to crystallize ideas on Lithuania's independence. The February Revolution brought political freedoms and Lithuanians hurried to organize their political parties. There was a need to organize an authoritative political body that could represent all Lithuanians and work towards obtaining autonomy or full independence from Russia. Representatives of five Lithuanian parties established the Council of the Lithuanian Nation () in February 1917. To boost its authority and recognition, the council called the Petrograd Seimas attended by 334 deputies. There were passionate disagreements between the political right (Party of National Progress, Lithuanian Christian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after the apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with the birth of the Russian Empire and Russia's entry into modern history as a European great power. It served as a capital of the Tsardom o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaclovas Bielskis
Vaclovas Bielskis (1 May 1870 – 16 September 1936) was a Lithuanian leftist activist. Educated as an engineer at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute, Bielskis worked at a steal factory in Ukraine until he was able to return to Lithuania in 1905. He settled in Šiauliai where he became an administrator of the estates of (mother of Vladimir Zubov). During World War I, he evacuated to Saint Petersburg where he was an active participant of the February Revolution and chairman of the Petrograd Seimas which attempted to organize a Lithuanian political center in Russia. In 1919, he was people's commissar of agriculture in the short-lived Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia (Litbel). In 1923, he returned to Šiauliai where he was director of the Gubernija brewery and was elected to the city's council as a representative of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. He was also active in Lithuanian cultural life. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Vailokaitis
Juozas Vailokaitis (17 December 1880 – 2 August 1953) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest, member of the Seimas, banker, and industrialist. He as his brother Jonas Vailokaitis (1886–1944) were widely regarded as the richest men in interwar Lithuania. Educated at the Sejny Priest Seminary and the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy, Vailokaitis was ordained priest in 1905. He was then assigned as editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian-language Catholic weekly newspaper ''Šaltinis'' which became the most popular Lithuanian periodical of the time (its circulation reached 15,000 copies). He was also active in Lithuanian cultural and economic life. Together with his brother Jonas, he was active in the agricultural cooperative Žagrė and cofounded the Company of Brothers Vailokaitis which provided loans to Lithuanians who wanted to buy land. During World War I, he retreated to Russia where he organized the and published its weekly newspaper ''Vadas''. He joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykolas Krupavičius
Mykolas Krupavičius (1 October 1885, Balbieriškis, Lithuania – 4 December 1970, Chicago, U.S.) was a Lithuanian priest and politician. He is best known for his involvement with the land reform in the interwar Lithuania. In 1900 Krupavičius enrolled into the Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary. He showed interest in politics from early days: during the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was arrested twice. After graduation in 1905, he worked as a teacher in the Łomża Governorate and in Papilė. In 1908 Krupavičius began his theological studies at the Sejny Priest Seminary and continued them at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. He was ordained into the priesthood in June 1914. After graduation in 1917, he worked as a chaplain at a Lithuanian schools in Voronezh, Lithuanian school in Voronezh. At the same time he got involved with the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and was sentenced to death by the Bolshevik revolutionary court. Krupavičius escaped the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martynas Yčas (politician)
Martynas Yčas (December 10, 1917 – April 22, 2014) was an American microbiologist of Lithuanian descent. He co-authored the book '' Mr. Tompkins: Inside Himself'' with physicist George Gamow. Yčas was born in Voronezh. He started studying law in Lithuania in 1936. In 1941, Yčas went to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where as a U.S. Army recruit he assisted at the Russian language school. After the war he studied zoology there, gaining the Bachelor of Arts in 1948. He then studied microbiology at California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1950. Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York hired him in 1956 and he taught microbiology there until 1988. He was a founding member of the RNA Tie Club, a discussion society of scientists who attempted to decipher the genetic code and with Gamow and others published early statistical analyses of proteins and DNA which disproved some early models of the genetic code. The review for ''The Biological Code'' said the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustinas Voldemaras
Augustinas Voldemaras (16 April 1883 – 16 May 1942) was a Lithuanian nationalist political figure. He briefly served as the country's first prime minister in 1918 and continued serving as the minister of foreign affairs until 1920, representing the fledgling Lithuanian state at the Versailles Peace Conference and the League of Nations. After some time in academia, Voldemaras returned to politics in 1926, when he was elected to the Third Seimas. Dissatisfied with the left-wing government of President Kazys Grinius, Voldemaras and fellow nationalist Antanas Smetona supported the military coup d'état in December 1926 and he was appointed as the prime minister for a second time. A brilliant orator, Voldemaras represented the radical wing of the Lithuanian Nationalist Union that was increasingly critical of the more moderate policies of President Smetona. Smetona had Voldemaras removed from office in September 1929 and exiled to Zarasai. Voldemaras was arrested in 1934 after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fyodor Kokoshkin (politician)
Fyodor Fyodorovich Kokoshkin (, — ) was a Russian lawyer and politician, author of seminal works on jurisprudence, the First Russian State Duma deputy, and a founding member of the Russian Constitutional Democratic Party and the Controller general of the Russian Provisional Government. The playwright Fyodor Kokoshkin was his grandfather.Фёдор Фёдорович Кокошкин The biography at www.hrono.ru Biography Born in , , |
