Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda accused Russia of rewriting history after the name of the Christionas Donelaitis Museum in the Kaliningrad region was changed to “Literary Museum”.
“What’s next? Burning books? “Russia’s decision to change the name of a museum dedicated to a classic of Lithuanian literature is another unacceptable attempt to rewrite history,” he wrote on social network X.
The museum of the 18th century Lithuanian poet Kristionas Donelaitis, the founder of the realist movement in Lithuanian literature, was opened in 1979 in the village of Chistye Prudy near Kaliningrad. The museum’s memorial complex includes a Lutheran church and a rectory where Donelaitis wrote his famous poem “Seasons”.
The Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art (KOIHM), of which the institution is a branch, reported on January 9: TASSit will now be called “Literary Museum in the village of Chistye Prudy”. KOIKHM also guaranteed that the name of the Lithuanian poet will be preserved both in exhibitions and in tours where people talk about him.
They also stated that the cultural heritage site of regional importance where the museum is located will continue to be called the “monumental complex associated with the life and works of the classic of Lithuanian literature, Kristionas Donelaitis”.
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Source: Gazeta
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