Rykantai is a village in
Trakai district municipality
Trakai District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania.
It has significant Polish minority population in Lithuania, with more than quarter of the population claiming Polish ethnicity.
Elderships
Trakai District Municipality is ...
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Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
, 7 kilometres north-west of
Lentvaris. The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The
Neris River
The river Neris () or Vilija (, ) 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) from the right bank, at Kaunas, as its ma ...
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 Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...
's novel
War and Peace
''War and Peace'' (; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy. An ...
as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.
References
Villages in Vilnius County
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