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1 photograph Povilas (first to the right) and Vandas (second to the left), Tarnauskas, restaurant “Versalis” shareholders, festive visit to Nemunas. 4th decade. From the family archive of Ludza Riaukienė. Robert Kanys: In this photo, with Povilas and Vanda Tarnauskas and my grandfather, Česlovas Kanys, who was friends with Povilas Tarnauskas and also worked as […]

The funniest part was to spin circles around the monument with my Nikon, which was used but still great. I brought it back from a trip. Before leaving, I used half a film taking photos with my Zenit camera, capturing the monument which had not been fully built yet, and in June, I used the […]

Gintaras: “One detail stuck to my mind from the dismantling of Leninas monument: next to Donelaičio Street, under a tree, I saw an elderly couple, probably of Russian nationality. They held arms and… cried silently. Even though everyone was in good mood, but I felt pity looking at them: they believed him for their entire life, […]

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė: If someone is collecting historical material, there is an interesting episode. Photo (see photo No. 2) pictures mother of the Lithuanian partisan Kazys Veverskis (pseudonym Senis). Our family became acquainted with her under very interesting circumstances. This one time, my mommy went to the post office to run some errand and found […]

Liuda Riaukienė: “My grandparents Povilas and Vanda Tarnauskai were shareholders of Versalis company. They founded it with two more friends in 1930. Tarnauskas also worked in the kitchen as a chef, and Tarnauskienė was a cashier. In some sense, she was the face of the restaurant: her duty was to welcome everyone and smile to […]

The first building of Garrison Officers’ club during the Interwar period was in a two-storey building designed by an unknown architect at the corner of Laisvės Alėja and A. Mickevičiaus Street (currently the premises of the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees). When Kaunas became the temporary capital, it required new representative spaces that would allow […]

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