Pašiaušė
Pašiaušė is a village in Lithuania, between Šiauliai and Panevėžys. According to census of 2001, it had 191 residents.
Notable people
- Jan Prosper Witkiewicz - a 19th-century Lithuanian orientalist, explorer and diplomat in Russian service in Central Asia.
References
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ^ Ludwig W. Adamec, ed. (2012). Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan. The Scarecrow Press. p. 441. ISBN 978-0521815291.
A Russian agent, or adventurer, of Lithuanian descent, Vitkevich came to Kabul in December 1837 for the purpose of establishing commercial relations with Afghanistan.
- ^ Brysac, Shareen Blair; Meyer, Karl Ernest (1999). The Tournament of Shadows The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. Washington: Counterpoint. pp. 84–85.
For his part, Vitkevich had reason for retinence. His life history was Dostoyevskian. A Lithuanian by birth, he belonged as a student to the ...
- ^ Dominic Lieven, ed. (2006). The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689-1917. Cambridge University Press. p. 175. ISBN 0521815290.