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8 Preface
article “Figure of Heavenly Patroness: Mary of Šiluva in 20 th Century Lithuanian
Literature” analyzes 20 th c. Lithuanian literary works in which Mary of Šiluva
is actualized as the figure of a heavenly patroness. Questions are raised how the
discussed literary works contribute to the development of the religious discourse
on Šiluva, what forms of Mary of Šiluva as a heavenly patroness arise in literature,
what are their particulars?
In the article “The Self Assistance Fund of the Freiburg University “Lituania”
Society” algimantas katilius investigates the activities of the Assistance Fund
(active from 1919 until 1922 or 1926) founded by the students themselves in 1919.
It is clarified that the Fund was primarily financed with funds from Lithuanians in
the USA through the Tautos Fondas (National Fund). In this period support was
granted to about 30 students. At that time when a university in Lithuania was
only being founded, the support granted by the Assistance Fund was very useful
to students studying abroad.
andrius martinkus in the article “Lev Karsavin, Eurasianism and Bolshevism
(The Role of Karsavin in the Ideological History of the Eurasianism Movement)”
analyzes the role of Lev Karsavin, who in 1925 joined the Eurasian movement,
arising in the Russian post revolutionary emigration in 1921, in the ideological
transformation of the Eurasian movement the culmination of which resulted in the
split in 1929 into anti-Communist oriented “right” and pro-Soviet “left” wings.
Relying on Karsavin’s texts published in the literature of the Eurasians, the author
of the article shows that this transformation was to a great extent determined by the
intellectual efforts of this thinker and the decisive period for the Eurasian movement
in 1928–1929 coincided with the beginning of Karsavin’s life in Lithuania.
juozapas Blažiūnas continues his investigations in the history and problematic
questions of the management and protection of cultural monuments in Vilnius
and the Vilnius region in the 19 th – beginning of 20 th c. The article “Protection
of Cultural Monument Organizations and the Management of Paintings in the
Vilnius Region from the Beginning of the 20 th c. until 1939” analyzes the activities
of various public, later and state cultural monument protection organizations
that had carried out complex management of cultural monuments works. An
important role in this area fell to the lecturers and students of Stefan Batory
University in Vilnius. In the discussed period part of the management of paintings
was completed professionally, with the assistance of scholars the art works were
especially thoroughly investigated. The specialist led system of managing cultural
monuments due to which many architectural buildings and art works of the Vilnius
region were put in order functioned well.
In the article “The Religious Meaning of Three Catholic Funeral Customs