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Šiauliai on the Threshold of Changes

Straight after the third partition of the Commonwealth of Both Nations and the occupation of the land of Lithuania, Russian Empress Catherine II, based on the Russian law ‘Malonės raštas miestams’ (‘Letter of Grace to Cities’... Read more
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Jan
2018

History of the City: from the Rebellion to the Rebellion

After survival of many fires and other persecuting cataclysms and a miraculous ability to recover after each of them, Šiauliai deserves to be called the city phoenix; this image also remains in the 19th century. The city was twice gre... Read more
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Jan
2018

Building of Trade Routes and Urban Growth

In the late 18th century and the early 19th century, the detailed picture of Šiauliai, recorded in the city plan drawn up in 1800-1801, is already known. It is the first city plan and one of the first such cartographic works in the hi... Read more
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Jan
2018

Development of the City’s Industry

The economic and industrial potential of the city was promoted by emerging local enterprises. Šiauliai of the early 19th century can be called an agrarian and commercial city, where the majority of the population was engaged in agricu... Read more
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Jan
2018

The Modernizing City

Even before the end of the 19th century, lighting of main streets and houses, financed from the city budget, was equipped. In the 20th century, lighting was equipped by private enterprises: Ch. Frenkelis’s tannery, tannery of brother... Read more
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Jan
2018

Education and Self-Education

In the early 19th century, Šiauliai had only one parish school, consisting of one class, attached to the church, which was operating for more than 35 years, until 1839. Due to the enhancing Russification and shortage of funds in the c... Read more
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Jan
2018

The City’s Cultural Life – the Dawn of Awakening Consciousness

The city’s stronger economy and administrative apparatus was followed by the emergence of various organizations, movements and the like. As new educational and medical institutions were set up, the intelligentsia also grew, because m... Read more
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category Šiauliai of the 19th Century and the Beginning of the 20th Century in the Grip of the Russian Empire