Pašiaušė
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Pašiaušė is a village in Lithuania, between Šiauliai and Panevėžys. According to census of 2001, it had 191 residents.[1]
Notable people
- Jan Prosper Witkiewicz - a 19th-century Polish–Lithuanian[2][3] orientalist, explorer and diplomat in Russian service in Central Asia.[4]
References
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ISBN 978-0521815291.
A Russian agent, or adventurer, of Lithuanian descent, Vitkevich came to Kabul in December 1837 for the purpose of establishing commercial relations with Afghanistan.
- ^ Brysac, Shareen Blair; Meyer, Karl Ernest (1999). The Tournament of Shadows The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington: Counterpoint. pp. 84–85.
For his part, Vitkevich had reason for retinence. His life history was Dostoyevskian. A Lithuanian by birth, he belonged as a student to the ...
- ISBN 0521815290.