#lithuanian poet

[floweryblume]

Oh, Madonna, you're the queen of the night.

Sitting all alone with jewel-like beetles around you

In a candlelit room with smoke dancing on your body

Like see-through silk shimmering in the moonlight.

Madonna, the night sky defines you.

Your soft chest is pale like the Moon,

Embodying the most beautiful shapes,

Contrasting your obsidian eyes.

Dear Madonna, the star of my life,

Your mahogany hair is softer than cotton,

Resting on your shoulders, it shapes your neck,

Creating the most breathtaking scenery.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 60: 19th Century III and Earlier

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[antikristvs]

Devil in the dunes 🌕

[hana-loves-bumblebees]

Apparently, all of Adam Mickiewicz’s friends described his eyes as different colours, and his love Maryla said/wrote that they were changing colours, and it got me thinking…. Heterochromatic Mickiewicz canon?!???

[ray-of-midnight-storm]

OH AND IF ANYONE FOR SUM REASON WANTED HERE IS A LITHUANIAN VERSION I JUST TRANSLATED!!! :))))))

Pagalvok apie mane

Aš galvoju apie žmones, tokius nuoširdžius ir lengvabūdiškus.

Ar jie kada nors galvoja apie mane?

Taip, kad visatą nukrečia šiurpuliukais,

Taip kaip aš apie juos galvoju.

Ar mano likimas rūpintis kitais, bet nerasti paguodos?

Ar man lemta būti paliktai? Būti pamirštai?

Esu įpratusi būti viena,

Tačiau niekada neįprasiu būti vieniša,

Kad ir kiek ilgai būčiau,

Kad ir kiek ilgai kentėčiau.

- Ray of midnight storm ⛈️

[mylimoji]

the most heartbreaking thing is when actual communist poetry is applied for lt independence propaganda, it's so heinous, call them traitors and leave them alone, don't take their poetry out of context in this way...

[svengaakuinhirvi]

Lietus (2022) - Emilia Kyyhkynen

[otmaaromanovas]

Vera Ignatievna Gedroits - the openly lesbian, first woman professor of surgery in Russia, who worked alongside the Romanovs

Princess Vera Ignatievna Gedroits was a doctor, surgeon, poet, and pioneer of medicine. Vera worked alongside Tsarina Alexandra and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna, working with the Red Cross to treat injured soldiers during the First World War. 

** content warning for mention of suicide **

Born as a Princess of royal Lithuanian descent in 1870 in Kyiv, Vera is thought to have developed an interest in medicine following the passing of her little brother Sergei during childhood. Vera later wrote under the pen name ‘Sergei Gedroits’ in honour of him. 

In 1892, Vera was arrested for participating in the Populist movement. Freed and undeterred, Vera was adamant to continue her medical studies. An open lesbian, Vera entered into a marriage of convenience with friend Nikolai Belozerov, permitting the obtaining of a new passport to travel, allowing her to pursue her dream of a medical career without the restriction of borders and her previous name being on police records. Despite their marriage being one of convenience, rather that romantic love, Vera and Nikolai were close friends, and stayed in contact through letters.

In 1903, Vera obtained the title of ‘female doctor’, but later that year attempted suicide. Vera’s mental health had declined due to an overwhelming personal family life, the death of her sister, exhausting workload, and breakup of a relationship with a lady in Switzerland. The following year, Vera had recovered, and the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war led to her working in horse-drawn mobile hospitals. 

Working with wounded patients, Vera took detailed notes which allowed the making of the connection between injuries and the weapon used to inflict them. Interestingly, Vera did not shy away from abdominal operations, which was irregular due to previous thoughts that such injuries were ‘inoperable’. Often, patients with such injuries were refused surgery and were sadly left to pass away.

Following the War, Vera worked provincially, attending to 125,363 patients. This pioneering work was recognised by Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna in 1909, who invited Vera to take the position of Senior Court Physician. Vera was the first woman to serve as a physician in the Imperial Palace. Vera wrote ‘Conversations on Surgery for Sisters and Doctors’ to help the Palace understand the profession. Vera would eventually write 58 scientific papers. Vera earned a Doctorate of Surgery on May 11 1912, the first woman in the history of the University of Moscow to do so. 

Following the outbreak of the First World War, Vera helped to install physiotherapy equipment and X-ray machines in hospitals to aid recovery. Vera taught Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, medical work, and they assisted with operations. Vera worked alongside Imperial Physician Dr. Evgeny Botkin to help connect infirmaries to railways and supplies. Vera occasionally travelled to the front lines to help provide surgery directly at the scene, and in one case performed over 30 operations over a three day period. 

Vera is recorded as having little patience for the infamous Grigori Rasputin, with one source recording the shoving of Rasputin ‘into a corridor when he refused to get out’ of the way.

There are no records that suggest that the patients or the Romanovs objected to Vera's sexuality, though there was disapproval of her continuing to remain in Tsarskoe Selo to continue military surgery after the Revolution. If anything, she was renowned as one of the most capable and intelligent women of the era. Vera wore a surgeon's cap rather than the head coverings that nurses and Sisters of Mercy wore.

During the First World War, Vera met fellow nurse Countess Maria Dmitrievna Nirod-Mukhanova, a widowed maid-of-honour at the palace. The pair fell in love and started a relationship, which would last for the rest of Vera’s life. Maria had three children: Dmitri Feodorovich, Marina Feodorovna, and Feodor Feodorovich. The children knew about their mother's relationship with Vera, as they lived as a married couple whilst caring for and raising them. Some sources suggest that Vera and Maria had a marriage ceremony.

By the late 1920s, Vera was living with Maria, who worked as a surgeon, in Kyiv after the couple and Maria’s children escaped Revolution, taking refuge with monks. They spent eighteen years together. The pair lived as a married couple. In 1932, Vera passed away aged 61 after a diagnosis of uterine cancer. Maria continued Vera’s work by operating a pharmacy that provided free medicine to the poor. Maria passed away in 1965 aged 86. The above image is the only photo that has been attributed to her.

Vera defied all the social norms, becoming a pioneer of medicine and challenging traditions within the profession, saving thousands of lives in the process. Vera’s legacy lives on today.

SOURCES:

Hands that bring back to life. Vera Ignatievna Gedroits - surgeon and poet by V.G. Khokhlov

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Wartime albums of Olga Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna, Last Romanovs on Flickr

The Princess who Transformed War Medicine - BBC

Princess Vera Gedroits: military surgeon, poet, and author by J.D.C. Bennet

The Diary of Olga Romanov : Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution by Helen Azar

Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar : Diaries and Letters, 1913-1918 by Helen Azar and Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Polish Holocaust-era Jewish memoir translations

"There were rumors that she sometimes entertained German officers in her well appointed apartment" = She was a prostitute.

"She was a good girl. Young and pretty. She had a very particular way with the younger German officers and we knew we could trust her to bring us information useful to our movement" = Yeah she fucks the Germans for safety but she hates them and can spy for us.

"In the conditions of such destruction, our typical moral attitudes left us. People became desperate for any closeness; they were not long for this world, they figured, best not to spend these last days alone." = Literally everyone was fucking and making no attempt to pretend that they weren't

"Yet, despite everything, we were still young, idealistic people. Normal relations existed between men and women. Love blossomed, relationships formed." = WE HAD SEEEEEEEXXXXX

"I will not speak of what some of these women were forced to do for the survival of themselves and sometimes, their families. I know, however, that, afterwards, it lay heavy on their conscience." = Yes, your mother had sex in exchange for bread. You better fucking appreciate it.

"She was beautiful. None could have known that she was Jewish. The young German and Lithuanian soldiers flocked to her. At times, out of gallantry, these same young men would sometimes conceal this pretty young woman from inspectors, even helping her lift her bags full on contraband" = She was hot and men helped her lift suitcases full of guns onto trains because she was hot and also smarter than them.

"He was young and idealistic; a dreamer, a poet. When he spoke, all the room seemed to tremble in anticipation of his words." = he was a slut

Post brought to you by: 23 year old me asking my MA advisor about sex and sexuality in women's Holocaust diaries/memoirs/autobiographies and her being like "well they didn't talk about it..."

[majestativa]

Ulysses and Penelope are no more real than a myth can be; that is, myth can only be a paradox – the perception of truth by means of an illusion. The poet, this “sailor from so many sunken ships,” as Aistis put it, cannot help setting out to sea over and over again.

— Rimvydas Šilbajoris, Perfection of Exile: Fourteen Contemporary Lithuanian Writers, (1970)

[floweryblume]

For V.

You smell like roses on a hot june afternoon,

Striking new poses, you dance in tune

With soft warm breeze, with sunray stripes,

Surrounded by bees and butterflies.

Caressing your skin, the red sun smiles,

Returning the grin you say your goodbyes.

The night will come soon, yet we still feel so warm,

Having fun with the moon we are swaying around.

The moonlight is red, illuminating the night,

Just like the sunset, it's shining so bright.

Your body moves slow, the dance of the trees.

Silhouettes shifting low, you get on your knees.

Picking up a wild rose, you place it on your chest,

Warm wind still blows, whispers make the night feel blessed.

The evening birds sing the music of my soul,

The nightfall brings you magical glow.

Accompanied by stars, my sight follows yours,

Gazing upon skies, we're healing ancient scars.

Wind tickling our noses, we're in a comfortable mood...

You smell like roses on a hot june afternoon.

[bobemajses]

Jews in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1910s

Jews were particularly entrenched in Lithuanian society at the outset of the 16th century, and no place was more important than Vilnius, an Ir ha-em, or a Great Mother City. It was the axis of the Lithuanian Jewish world. Renowned rabbis, teachers, poets and musicians made their homes here.

[kwilooo]

About me!

Hi! I’m Kira! I am an artist, poet, history lover, and theatre lover.

(And your local amrev fanatic✨✨)

i use they/them pronouns mainly, but i honestly don't mind she/her or he/him :)

I’m always open to questions, suggestions, or requests for art, so don’t be afraid to stop by.

(minor / 16 april)

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE 🇵🇸

Joined 29 June 2023 :)

Interests:

- art digitally and traditionally, though I’m better traditionally :3

- writing both my own stories and fanfics

- writing poems!!! (see @kira-cant-write-poetry)

- reading

-theatre

- history!!

- the relationship between Hamilton and Laurens

- Washington’s aide-de-camps

- life during the American Revolution

- Marquis de Lafayette

- American Revolution

- a bit of the French Revolution (I’m just getting into it ;) )

- please someone teach my about Francis Kinloch and more about the aides

- fashion during the revolutionary and world wars, but specifically 1940s/50s

- Hamilton

- Helluva Boss

- The Owl House

- SIX the musical

- Beetlejuice the musical

Other info :)

ENFP-T

I love theatre (if that wasn’t obvious)

My first language is English, but I’m learning German, Spanish, and Lithuanian (I understand basic things), and I’m no longer learning French but I do understand the basics :)

I’m Lithuanian 🇱🇹🇱🇹😄

non-binary/genderfluid 💛🤍💜🖤

Bisexual 🩷💜💙 [or pan, but under that umbrella]

Feel free to message or ask me anything (as long as you’re not being creepy, please)

Have a nice day/night!! Love you all <33

(Love all my 80 moot besties :))

DNI: TRANSPHOBES, HOMOPHOBES, RACISTS, TERFS, SEXISTS, AND ANYONE OF THAT KIND.

A note both for myself and anyone else who wants to see it: Hamilton + laurens actual letters

As well as a list of events with Hamilton/Laurens

[ineffablelvrs]

ok nevermind abt that ask i just replied to the person was a zionist and i dont want zionists on my blog BUT i do want to do a post about polish classic literature that ive read so let's get into it

so basically to start it all off there's a bunch of books you have to read for school in poland and that's like mandatory and in every school its the same and most people hate it a lot because they think its boring (its not the language is just a bit weird but i mean that's to be expected lol)

(for. literally all of these 😭 very important are the polish partitions, there were 3 of them, and after the 3rd one (1795) poland disappeared from the map for 123 years, its land divided between prussia, russia and austria, regaining its independence again in 1918 & it's important to read these with the context in the back of ur mind :])

the most hated are two most important polish poets and dramatists, adam mickiwicz (his books: sir thaddeus, konrad wallenrod, forefathers' eve/dziady) and juliusz słowacki (his books: balladyna, lilla weneda, kordian (dude's really great at making female characters honestly so id recommend balladyna and lilla weneda)) and due to their literary works they're pretty important to the culture (and here's a fun fact, they hated each other and now people ship them) (actually another funfact słowacki is suspected to be ??? actually idk i think hes just queer for a lot of reasons, particularly his letters to zygmunt krasiński)

ok but abt their books, mickiwicz's sir thaddeus is, as the subtitle suggests, about polish nobility and the last foray in lithuania, and its to poland what homer's iliad is to greece LOL

konrad wallenrod, my personal favorite of mickiwicz's works, is abt a lithuanian knight who goes undercover as a teutonic knight and become the order's grand master to fight and defeat it. machiavelli's philosophy plays a big part here (the motto is literally from the prince), and there's a coded message here how to fight tsarist russia

forefathers' ever/dziady is divided into 3 parts (part 2, part 3 and part 4, do not ask me why there's no part 1 i do not know). part 2 is about, well, forefathers' eve, part 4 is abt a guy who killed himself but also not really because of like failed love or whatever and hes telling a priest the story of his life or something i don't actually remember i havent read it in a long time 😭😭 part 3 is about the same guy but he changes his name so he apparently never killed himself ?? but anyways its my favorite one and it's considered one of the most important polish literary works and its got great lines and religious symbolism but it's also shows the pain of polish people, particularly polish youth, and cruelty of the russian tsar alexander and all his subordinates (also, the beef between mickiwicz and słowacki is present here. one of the negative characters, the doctor, is actually august bécu, słowacki's stepfather, who died the same way his character dies in the play lol)

onto juliusz słowacki now, kordian is abt your typical romanticism era guy, so you know, weltschmerz and all that but later on in life he finds a purpose in life and of course its helping poland regain its independence. so he decides to kill the tsar by himself and yeah there's no way this could go wrong right. written after the november uprising, it analyses the reasons of it's failure

balladyna is about a peasant girl who kills her sister to marry a noble man, and later keeps killing more people so no one knows she killed her sister and also because she wants to be the queen. great for cain and abel enjoyers id say lmao

lilla weneda is abt a nation doomed to failure from the beginning of the play by the prophet roza weneda. the story follows lilla weneda (also doomed from the beginning lmao) trying to save her father from death from the hands of the enemy who captured him and her brothers, so she makes a bet with the queen of the nation that captured him. it's inspired by celtic and slavic culture, and also greek tragedies. could be interpreted in a bunch of ways, like why the november uprising failed, why poland lost it's independence etc

probably the least hated one is the doll by bolesław prus, lotsssss of topics to use for writing argumentative essays which is why ppl like it sm 😭 and it's actually really good, it depicts a detailed picture of warsaw in the late 1870s . also one of the important plot points is the unrequited love of the mc, stanisław wokulski, for an artistocrat izabela łęcka

my favorite one is the wedding by stanisław wyspiański !! its a play abt a real life event of wedding of a member of cracow intelligentsia and a peasant girl (at the time it was rly popular for the aristocrats to marry peasant girls) with lots of symbolism !!!! wyspianski analyses the state of polish society which is unable to start an uprising, demythologizes a bunch of national myts at the time :]

another one of my favorites is the deluge by henryk sienkiwicz! its a long read so be warned lol im still reading it honestly 😭 it basically was created to keep polish people's spirits up in the 19th century, and its abt 16th century nobility !! its mostly a story abt andrzej kmicic and how his character changes and develops due to historcial circumstances (and also bc of his love for a woman) (honestly him and his lover oleńka are one of my favorite ships in classic literature 😭) but there are other great plot points ofc

gloria victis by eliza orzeszkowa is also a great one. set a few years after the january uprising, the wind visits a forest it hasn't been in in a while and the nature tells the story of the people who took part in the january uprising (the name is never mentioned due to censorship but we can deduct that thanks to context clues)

the coming spring by stefan żeromski depicts an natural and brutal image of the russian revolution, armenian-tatar conflict and of poland right after it regained independence again and it's issues. the mc is a pretty conflicted i believe is the right word? character which i think makes him interesting to analyse

tango by sławmoir mrozek i wouldn't say is hated, actually 9 out of 10 polish students love it and reasonably so ! it's sososoososo great and its so funny and polish writers just looooove analysing our society and in this case honestly just society. its abt a world with no rules with the roles reversed (the parents are rebellious and rebelled against all societal norms and everything is chaos now and their son wants the old world and its norms to come back bc like i said everything is a mess and he also wants to rebel but because he cant rebel against anything else he has to rebel against his parents and the lack of any norms)

if yall want the full list of polish mandatory reading books i can totally hive it to you !!! anyways i hope i convinced at least a bunch of people to read some of these because i really wish they were more popular lol

[meirimerens]

hey i hope its not a weird question but. do u have any favorite polish poets?? i know its specific but i feel like u would love Mickiewicz and his ballads and romances (rly cool polish-lithuanian folk stuff) (if youve been to Kraków u must've seen his statue next to sukiennice he was a rly cool guy) :3

let me be 100% wit you i have no favorite polish poets because i barely know any. my knowledge of polish poetry and literature begins and ends at polish literature students drawing słowackiewicz yaoi in their notebooks (real lore i've been made privy to). this is due to the fact that i cannot read polish (well that's a lie. i can read it fine i have an okay pronunciation if i take my time. couldn't tell you what any of that means though).

possibly the only polish poem i've pried open is Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer's "Fragment z Fantazji" because i consistently put it in my peterstakh sexual images due to 1) peter being polish on his mother's side to me and 2) the parts "Myśl moja ściga cię, jak fala / ściga za falą w wodnej toni", "W sieć pragnień cię oplatam całą, / A sieć tę moja miłość przędzie." & "Kiedym cię ujrzał, toś mi cała / Przed zadziwionym wzrokiem stała, / Jak moich długich snów wcielenie, / Jak wizja, którą ja tęsknotą / Zmusiłem oblec kształt widomy." containing motifs that deeply relate to peterstakh to me, such as the deep sea, spiders & webs, and incarnations of dreams/thoughts into flesh. you just had to be there.

i Must get to reading Mickiewicz i had began going over his Sonety krymskie [translated in french] and liked what i saw. keep reading i must etc.

[ray-of-midnight-storm]

(Feat. My dog Bruknė respect her or get nuked, also my water bottle in the background that I respect and love more than the church, river Styx bless that water bottle 🙏)

Prolly should say something…..

Hi name’s Ray (that’s a nickname I gave myself)

I’m an INFP, my enneagram is 2w1 :]

I love poetry, art and music plus dancin my cultures traditional dances!

I finished art and dance school and I have the gifted kid burnout syndrome (yay 😭)

Perfectionist since birth, lonely since kindergarten, the weird and sensitive kid who cried way too much in elementary (still do)

(NOT LONLEY ANYMORE WOOOOOO I HAVE A BEST FRIEND AND A FRIEND WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)

(@rosees3ray cause man you’re my nr. 1 bro for life)

Prolly touched starved not sure tho, I like painting! My favourite band is Arctic monkeys. And queen, the Beatles, ABBA shaped my childhood (along Lithuanian artists and singing tales)

Orange 🍊 juice 🤝 apple 🍎 juice

I am a daughter of Apollo

PJO AND HOO ARE MY LIFE AHHHHHHHHH

I like Greek mythology! If you couldn’t tell heh ^^

Cat person 🐈🐈🐈🐈

Capitalism can kiss my ass 🤠🔪

A poet/philosopher who has an existential crisis at least 7 times a week (I’m on meds dw my overthinking goin brrr)

STILL ON MEDS BUT MY ANXIETY WENT BYE BYE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT SCARED OF PEOPLE ANYMORE. Update I am so scared of people guys 💀

A proud Lithuanian 🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

I had a butterfly phase during covid and now I remember some weird facts about butterflies 🦋

ALSO had and origami phase during covid so now I remember how to fold a Crain like it’s nothing

(heh I’m so swag and amazing and swag😎)

I had panic attacks for almost 2 years. THEY GONE NOW MOTHERFUCKERSSS (If anyone need help or advice with that or anything in general I’m all ears!!!!)

I do believe that every person has a colour (no I will not elaborate 🤠🔪)

A hufflepuff (I’m not really into Harry Potter but I just like knowing I’m a hufflepuff)

My favorite shoes are converse! <3

A marvel girl :] (dc fans fuck off)

My first comfort character was puss in boots

Hope you got to know me a little ☺️ I love tumblr and you guys so much I feel like at home on this site <3