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Day 14. Maironis in Kyiv Even if he had visited the university for just a minute, he would have been given a commemorative plaque anyway. Today's story will be about Jonas Mačiulis – Maironis (1862–1932), a Lithuanian poet, playwright, publicist, critic, teacher, theologian, and activist of the Lit...

Day 13. January Uprising of 1863 and Kyiv. We are getting closer to a significant day, but who knows if we had it without the struggle of the previous generations. Especially important was the January Uprising of 1863, when the people of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth raised against the R...

Day 12. Podol during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. I would like to invite you to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, but because of the war, its expositions are hidden. Therefore, I propose today to take a walk in Podol: it has particular relations with the Lithuanian times in...

Day 11. And so, day after day, we walk around Kyiv in search of the Lithuanian traces. We dive into our ancient past and emerge in the present. One day we climb the Castle Hill to see and feel the medieval city, the next day we travel along its urban streets, we stumble over ancient stones, where ti...

Day 10. Lithuanian place names in Kyiv. Well, if we have already started looking at the toponymy of Kyiv, we can also find streets, lanes and even an avenue named after Lithuania, Lithuanian cities, and prominent figures in Lithuanian history. There are seven of them in total; three of them were na...

Day 9. Vita-Lytovska One could tell a lot more about Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky but strangely enough, he almost never visited Kyiv, and only found there a place of eternal peace. He could be met either in military campaigns, or concerned with state affairs (after all, he was the hetman of the Gra...