Antakalnis Cemetery
January Events
Antakalnis Cemetery (Lithuanian: Antakalnio kapinės, Polish: Cmentarz na Antokolu, Belarusian: Антокальскія могілкі), sometimes referred as Antakalnis Military Cemetery, is an active cemetery in the Antakalnis district of Vilnius, Lithuania. It was established in 1809.
Soldier burials
12 of the 14 victims of the Soviet attacks during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1]
In 2003, more than 3,000 French and other soldiers of the
Napoleon I who took part in the 1812 invasion of Russia were reburied at the cemetery, after their bodies were excavated some two years prior from French-dug trenches which were used by the victorious Russians as mass graves due to the frozen state of the ground; French and Lithuanian diplomats participated in the interment ceremony.[2] The remains of 18 more soldiers from the army who were dumped into a different area were reburied in November 2010.[3]
Famous interments
The famous people buried in the Antakalnis Cemetery include:
- Algirdas Brazauskas (1932–2010), politician, first president of independent Lithuania, elected in 1993
- Teodor Bujnicki (1907–1944), Polish poet
- Vytautas Edmundas Čekanauskas(1930–2010), Lithuanian architect
- Ričardas Gavelis (1950–2002), Lithuanian writer, playwright, and journalist
- Sigitas Geda (1943–2008), Lithuanian poet, writer, playwright
- Romualdas Granauskas (1939–2014), Lithuanian writer, playwright
- Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961–2007), Lithuanian writer
- Juozas Kamarauskas (1874–1946), Lithuanian painter
- Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995), Lithuanian painter of the School of Paris
- Vytautas Kernagis (1951–2008), Lithuanian singer and songwriter
- Kostas Kubilinskas (1923–1962), Lithuanian poet
- Jurgis Kunčinas (1947–2002), Lithuanian poet, writer
- Faustas Latėnas (1956–2020), Lithuanian composer, theatre manager
- Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930–2011), poet, writer and playwright
- Danas Pozniakas (1939–2005), Lithuanian boxer, the first Olympic champion from Lithuania
- Vytautas Šapranauskas (1958–2013), theater and film actor, television presenter, humorist
- Anton Schmid (1900–1942), German sergeant, Righteous Among the Nations
- Ieva Simonaitytė (1897–1978), Lithuanian writer
- Laurynas Stankevičius (1935–2017), Lithuanian politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Antanas Venclova (1906–1979), Lithuanian and Soviet writer and politician
- Norbertas Vėlius (1938–1996), Lithuanian folklorist
- Rokas Žilinskas (1972–2017), Lithuanian journalist and politician
- Marian Zdziechowski (1861–1938), Polish philosopher and historian
See also
- Rasos Cemetery
- Bernardine Cemetery (Vilnius)
- List of cemeteries in Lithuania
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antakalnis Cemetery.
- 15min.lt(in Lithuanian). Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ "Napoleon's Soldiers Finally Get a Burial". The Moscow Times. 2 June 2003.
- ^ "Napoleon's defeated soldiers buried in Lithuania". BBC News. 29 November 2010.
