The Cathedral Basilica of apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of #Kaunas, #Lithuania🇱🇹️.

XIX c. NOW

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The velvet dress is based on a painting of Barbora Radvilaitė, Lithuanian noblewoman. The Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of #Lithuania, from a series of portraits of Jogailaičiai dynasty, painted in the studio of Lucas Cranach the Younger around 1553-1556.

Happy Women's Day! 🌹

Start to read.... 📚

#books #bookshelf #history #culture #Spain

If you saw "The Last Emperor" (1987) by Bernardo Bertolucci, you must read this book, because the movie didn't reflect the whole story and romanticize this man. Meanwhile, a book shows his real face and behaviour.

Just finished! The man who was warshipped as a living God, his days finished as an ordinary citizen, who swept the streets and worked at the Beijing Botanical Gardens. If you want to know how lived the last emperor of #China, read this #book.

This is Neris river (the second larger river in #Lithuania🇱🇹️) in #Kaunas. Almost all river is frozen.

White winter.

#Lithuania🇱🇹️ #Kaunas #NorthernEurope

HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2026.

#HappyNewYear2026

Simonas Čechavičius (org. Szymon Czechowicz, 1689-1775) - the most famous painter of the Baroque era in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A pedagogue who educated a whole generation of our artists.

The last Advent week...

The Treasury of the palace of the Grand Dukes of #Lithuania🇱🇹️.

#history #culture #lithuanianhistory

Motiejus Kazimieras Sarbievijus was called the “Christian Horace” and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the “Lithuanian Horace.”  The poet taught rhetoric, philosophy, and theology at Vilnius University from 1626 to 1635, was then made preacher to King Vladislovas Vaza.

The year 2025 has been declared the Year of Motiejus Kazimieras Sarbievijus (1595–1640) and Baroque Literature, and thus the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania invites you to explore one of the most prominent poets of the Baroque era in the Grand Duchy of #Lithuania🇱🇹️.

The first orphanage in Vilnius, the capital of the Grand Duchy of #Lithuania. It was opened in 1791 by Jadvyga Teresa Ogińskienė, the wife of the Voivode of Trakai. Moreover, the nearby street was called the Orphan street. The institution was closed in 1966.

Finally, white morning in #Kaunas.

#Lithuania🇱🇹️ #NorthernEurope #winter

Christmas Tree in #Kaunas, #Lithuania🇱🇹️. It was very crowded and freezing cold. And now start to snowing.

#Christmas #ChristmasTree #NorthernEurope

My first part of Birthday's present. (Although, my birthday is only after 2 weeks 😎).

#books #history #culture #heritage #lithuanianhistory #Palestine #MiddleEast

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (1668-1676), Vilnius. #Lithuania🇱🇹️

Jacob Maris painted this so-called bluff-bowed ship on the beach in Scheveningen. Coastal villages didn’t have a harbour, so ships had to set sail straight from the beach and return there again. Horses helped them get in and out of the water. 🐴⛵

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028264

Christmas is coming to #Kaunas, #Lithuania🇱🇹️

The exhibition "Between the threads of time. The tapestry Abduction of the Sabine Women and the story of its restoration" in the Palace of the Grand Dukes of #Lithuania, Vilnius.

The tapestry created at the Royal Aubusson Manufactory (?) (#France🇫🇷) in the mid-18th century.

Halloween in #Kaunas.

#Lithuania #Halloween

Most notably, Wanstead House (Its gardens now form the municipal Wanstead Park) influenced the design of the #WhiteHouse in Washington DC, where an exact copy of the portico at Wanstead was reproducing for official residence of the president of #US.

If I were a thief, 🥷I would steal this painting from #Louvre. "Le maréchal Ney à la redoute de Kowno" (Marshal Ney at the #Kaunas' redoubt) by Auguste Raffet, 1839. Sadly, it is not in the exposition.

Did you know? During the interwar period #Kaunas was called "The Little #Paris."

#Lithuania🇱🇹️

The Altar of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral Basilica of #Kaunas. after restoration.

It is the oldest wooden altar in the church, which was erected in 1503 by the Blessed Virgin Mary litterateurs brotherhood. It was redecorated in XVII c.
#Lithuania🇱🇹️.

This is from other side.