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Donelaitis Kristijonas
(1714—1780)

Kristijonas Donelaitis was a Prussian-Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet. He was born in Lasdinehlen near Gumbinnen, in the north-eastern part of East Prussia (Lithuania Minor). He wrote the first Lithuanian poem, Metai (The Seasons), thus laying the foundation of Lithuanian poetry. He was buried under the church of Tolminkiemis.

Lithuania, 1994, Kristijonas Donelaitis

USSR, 1964, Kristijonas Donelaitis

USSR, 1982, Donelaitis monument in Klaipeda

USSR, 1981.12.16, Dostoevsky's museum in Staraya Russa