Rykantai is a village in
Trakai district municipality,
Lithuania, 7 kilometres north-west of
Lentvaris
Lentvaris (; pl, Landwarów) in eastern Lithuania, 9 km east of Trakai. It is a transportation hub, as several road and rail routes cross here.
Lake Lentvaris is nearby.
History
The town is situated in ethnographically Baltic Lithua ...
. The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The
Neris River
The river Neris () or Viliya ( be, Ві́лія, pl, Wilia ) rises in northern Belarus. It flows westward, passing through Vilnius (Lithuania's capital) and in the south-centre of that country it flows into the Nemunas (Neman), at Kaunas, a ...
flows north of the village. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it has 281 inhabitants.
Rykantai is known as one of the first reformats settlement in Lithuania. Rykantai is mentioned in
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
's novel
War and Peace
''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...
as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.
References
Villages in Vilnius County
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