Maria Šlapialene (nee Pyasetskaya; Maria Piackaite-Šlapialene , lit. Marija Šlapelienė ; June 5, 1880 , Vilno - April 4, 1977 , Vilnius) - Lithuanian public and political figure; wife of Jurgis Šlapalis .
| Maria Schlapälene | |
|---|---|
| Marija Šlapelienė | |
| Birth name | Marija piaseckaitė |
| Date of Birth | June 5, 1880 |
| Place of Birth | Willy |
| Date of death | April 4, 1977 (96 years old) |
| Place of death | Vilnius |
| Occupation | public figure |
| Children | Laimute Slapelite-Graujinene (1906–1988) Grazhap Slapelite-Sirutene (1909–2009) Skaistutis Šlapalis (1919–1961) |
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Biography
After graduating from the gymnasium in Vilna ( 1900 ), she sang in the Lithuanian choir of the church of St. Raphael , participated in Lithuanian cultural life. She was a member of Lithuanian societies Vilniaus aušra , Rūta , Žiburėlis , and the Lithuanian Scientific Society. She participated in the distribution of banned Lithuanian literature .
After the lifting of the ban on the Lithuanian press in Latin script in 1904, she began working in the editorial office of the newspaper Piatras Vileisis “ Vilnius Ginos ”. In 1905 - 1906 she was the head of the first Lithuanian bookstore, which operated in the years 1904 - 1912 under the newspaper "Vilnius Zhines".
She played in Lithuanian amateur drama and opera performances: the role of Agota in the comedy “America in the Bath” by Kyaturakis (1905), the main role of Birutė in the first Lithuanian opera “Birutė” by Mikas Petrauskas (1906).
In 1906, together with her husband and Eliana Brazaitite, she founded the Lithuanian bookstore in Vilna on Blagoveshchenskaya Street (now Dominicon ) and managed it until 1945 . The store was also engaged in publishing and became an important center of Lithuanian cultural, social and political life.
In 1938 she was arrested; accused of distributing anti-Polish publications (books and maps published in Lithuania).
She was buried in the Rasu cemetery in Vilnius near the grave of her husband Jurgis Šlapalis. The tombstone was created by the artist and sculptor Antanas Kmelyauskas ( 1979 [1] ; according to other sources in 1981 [2] ). Their daughter Gražutė Slapalite-Sirutene (1909-2009), a public figure, lithuanian, journalist, was buried there.
Memory
In 1991, the house-museum of Maria and Jurgis Šlapalis was opened in Vilnius in the house where Maria Šlapialene and Jurgis Šlapalis lived from 1926 until her death (40 Piles Street ). A memorial table with an inscription in Lithuanian is installed on the building.
In 2004, a memorial table was opened in the house where the bookstore Šlapalisov (now Dominiconu 11) was operating in connection with the centenary of the lifting of the ban on Lithuanian printing in Latin script (sculptor Andrejus Zubkovas) [3]
Notes
- ↑ Vilniaus senųjų kapinių, vad. Rasų kapinėmis, komplekso visuomenės veikėjų Jurgio Šlapelio, Marijos Piaseckaitės-Šlapelienės, Gražutės Šlapelytės-Sirutienės kapas (lit.) . Kultūros vertybių registras . Kultūros paveldo departamentas prie Kultūros ministerijos. Date of treatment December 18, 2016.
- ↑ Antanas Kmieliauskas (lit.) . Dainavos kraštas . Alytaus rajono savivaldybės viešoji biblioteka. Date of treatment December 18, 2016.
- ↑ Raguotienė, Genovaitė. Šlapelių lietuvių knygynas // Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija / Stasys Vaitiekūnas et al .. - Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2013 .-- T. XXIII: Šalcinis - Toliušas. - S. 232. - 848 p. - 12,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-420-01723-4 . (lit.)
Literature
- Raguotienė, Genovaitė. Šlapelienė, Marija (Piaseckaitė) // Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija / Stasys Vaitiekūnas et al .. - Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2013. - T. XXIII: Šalcinis - Toliušas. - S. 231-232. - 848 s. - 12,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-420-01723-4 . (lit.)