The Author dealswith the forgotten history of the Mongird family of Samogitia. After conductinganalysis of Mongirdai family, genealogical table was compiled. According to statististics, extended family was active in both number of persons and in geographical distribution. Mongird(as) descendantsspread over much of the territory of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth – formally, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and, after 1791, the Commonwealth of Poland and Tsar Russia (Russian Empire). Family itself Most members of the extended family bacame of priests, doctors,officers, artists, and public figures. For example, two brothers Vladislovas and Vytautas from a Mongird Mišučiai Manor became well known active participants inthe Lithuanian – Polish Nationalrevival back in 1863–1864. Their cousin patriot Vaclovas, a resident of Vilnius Town, who was fighting in the ranks of Polish Legion, and cousin Jadvyga Mongirdaitė were laid in Vilnius Pameriai Memorial. Their Grandmother Michalina Bankauskaitė was a great supporter of a Revival of 1863–1864. There are some unsolved relations and issues between the names of Mangirdaitis and Mongirdas that have notbeen identified yet. In the other words, Lithuanian genealogists and other researchers stillhave to work diligently (closely) to investigate and revive the history of this old Mongird tribe.

This article analyzes the cards of internal passports issued in Kaunas city in 1920–1940 and the sociodemographic data of the population (nationality, confession, place of birth, work activity, etc.) provided in them. Their significance for the researches of genealogy and local history is discussed. It was found that in 1920–1940, 89 620 people received internal passports in Kaunas, including 58.76% Lithuanians, 30.27% Jews, 3.16% Poles, 3.12% Germans, 2.74% Russians, 0.33% Belarusians; 59.13% of the persons who received internal passports in Kaunas were Catholics, 28.9% – Jews, 5.44% – Evangelical Lutherans and Evangelical Reformats, 3.14% – Orthodox, 0.96% – Old Believers. These results are in many cases close to the data of the 1923 general census of the Lithuanian population; 35.22% of the residents of Kaunas were born in this city, 11.4% – in Kaunas County, 6.86% – in then-Soviet Union’s territory, while the rest – in the different regions of Lithuania and abroad. According to the character of the working activity (occupation), Lithuanians were significantly dominant among the officials (90.94%), being farmers (88.05%), servants (82.84%), or workers (75.85%), while Jews were predominant among traders (83.2%).

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 Straipsnyje apžvelgiama Mykolo Kazimiero Radvilos, vadinamo Žuve­le, dienoraščio specifika egodokumentinių tyrimų kontekste. Beveik visą gyvenimą sąmoningai didiko rašytas dienoraštis atskleidžia ne tik kultū­rinės Baroko epochos specifiką, bet ir individualius asmenybės bruožus. Pirmame skyriuje pristatoma dienoraščio specifika – šaltinyje gausu iti­nerarinio pobūdžio tyrinėjimams naudingos informacijos, tačiau dėl jo apimamo laikotarpio ir apimties įrašuose pasitaiko informacijos, kuri at­skleidžia didiko charakterio bruožus, santykius šeimoje, sveikatos būklę. Antrame skyriuje pristatomi M. K. Radvilos asmenybės bruožai, kuriuos galime įžvelgti dienoraščio įrašuose, santykiai su šeimos nariais. Saviiro­niškas ir nerimastingas M. K. Radvila palaikė šiltus santykius su pirmąja žmona Pranciška Uršule Višniovecka Radviliene, dukra Teofilija. San­tykiai su valdinga motina Ona Sanguška Radviliene buvo daug labiau įtempti. Taip pat ryškėja Baroko epochos įtaka asmenybės pasaulėžiūrai ir požiūriui į mirtį.

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 Straipsnyje aptariamas J. Šaulio susirašinėjimas su Lietuvos visuomenės veikėja, rašytoja Gabriele Petkevičaite–Bite, kurios dėka būsimasis signa­taras gavo stipendiją ir puikų išsilavinimą Vakaruose, vienas iš pirmųjų lietuvių tautinio judėjimo dalyvių apsigynė daktaro laipsnį. J. Šaulys ir G. Petkevičaitė susirašinėjo apie 20 metų. Straipsnyje remiamasi daugiausiai Klaipėdos universiteto rankraštyne esančiais G. Bitės laiškais ir atvirukais. Susirašinėjimas apima beveik du dešimtmečius ir atskleidžia ne tik visuo­meninę J. Šaulio veiklą, bet ir šiltus bei draugiškus abiejų iškilių asmenybių santykius, pagarbą vienas kitam, taip pat abiejų žinomų Lietuvos kultūri­nio gyvenimo asmenybių buities ypatumus.

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 Straipsnyje nagrinėjama lietuvių liaudies menininko, skulptoriaus, dievdirbio, Liongino Šepkos (1907–1985) laiškai, rašyti 1970–1977 metais iš Lebedžių kaimo (Rokiškio rajono) į Vilnių būsimai žmonai žurnalisteiDanutei Digrienei. Remiantis šiais laiškais atkuriamos menininko kasdieniogyvenimo detalės, atskleidžiama tai, kas buvo nežinoma arba mažaižinoma apie kūrėjo vidinį pasaulį, mintis ir jausmus, socialinius ryšius,kūrybos poreikį. Straipsnyje stengtasi kuo išsamiau pristatyti atvirą ir neretušuotą vidinį menininko pasaulį, tai pateisina gausų laiškų citavimą.L. Šepka per septynerius metus D. Digrienei parašė per 300 laiškų. Praėjusdviem dešimtmečiams po L. Šepkos mirties, 2006 m. ji perdavė šiuos laiškus (313) Rokiškio krašto muziejui.Pirmą laišką L. Šepka parašė 1970 m. pabaigoje, po to kasmet laiškų gausėjo: nuo 31 laiško 1971 m. iki 78 laiškų 1978 m. Laiškai rašyti mokyklinio sąsiuvinio lapuose, kai jų pritrūkdavo, rašė ant tapetų. Laiškai ilgoki, retas 2–4, dauguma 8–10 puslapių. Juose tilpo visas L. Šepkos gyvenimas, visi įvykiai, visos mintys, visa jo gyvenimo filosofija, ir kiekviename laiške jaučiamas didžiulis rūpestis Danute. Tie septyneri metai, kai buvo rašyti laiškai, suteikia labai daug žinių apie paprasto žmogaus gyvenimą tuometinėje Lietuvoje. Tai savotiškas dienoraštis, kuris vertintinas kaip svarbus XX a. 8 dešimtmečio paprasto žmogaus gyvenimo liudytojas.

This paper analyses Levas Vladimirovas’ article “Karaliaučiaus spaudos pradininkas Hansas Veinreichas ir pirmieji jo darbo tęsėjai (XVI–XVII a.)” from 1961 with the aim to demonstrate his pioneering significance for the study of Königsberg book and library history from its beginnings in the 16th century until today. The first part of the following paper recapitulates the decisive contribution of the Lithuanian research in the clearing up of the fate of the libraries of old Königsberg. The second part of this paper deals with Vladimirovas’ study that updates a tradition of book historical research for future book science. After 1945 Vladimirovas was not only the first scientist, who has worked so intensely and objectively with the Königsberg printing during the early modern times, he was perhaps the first researcher taking a closer look at the books from the former Königsberg libraries that after 1945 had been brought by expert groups of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences at first to Kaunas, then to Vilnius.

Expanding the research about the old Vilnius University Library launched by L. Vladimirovas, this article discusses the fact (which has never been mentioned in historiography), about a gift to the burnt library of Åbo Academy, which then belonged to the Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire. In support action, which was organised by the supreme government of Russian Empire, lots of scientific, educational and cultural institutions took part; one of them was Vilnius University. Successful research of official documents, preserved in Lithuanian State Historical Archive (one of them The books of gifts to Vilnius University, 1820–1832), and the Activity daybook (1823–1832) of Vilnius University Library, as well as lists of donated books, preserved in the Library of Helsinki National University (Catalogus librorum qui bis extant in Bibliotheca Caesareae Universitatis Vilnensis) and in Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Katalog ksiąg dubletowych Biblioteki Uniwesyteckiej Wilenskiej oddanych dla zgorzaley Biblioteki Abowskiej i tamże odeslanych roku 1829 dnia 28 lutego), allowed us to specify chronology of this charity act, discover its effectors in Vilnius, and provide qualitative and quantitative parameters of donated books. It was identified, that the shipment of books delivered from Vilnius no earlier than 1829 February 28, consisted of 1481 volumes, mainly doublet books on different topics, which were deposited to the Helsinki University. Alexander Wictor Bohatkiewicz, a librarian and a bibliographer in Vilnius University Library, played a crucial role in the selection of the books. At present, the best part of the donated books is preserved in the National Library of Helsinki University. Completed research makes a premise to a historical digital reconstruction of the donated collection.

Library catalogue or inventory book is one of the most important sources for exploring its stock development, collection creation strategy, content of documents. Catalogue contains a lot of information about content of collections, quality and quantity aspects, and enables reconstruction of libraries which had been closed, dispersed or damaged by various disasters. Catalogues of old, especially non-operating libraries can also play role of reflections of scientific, cultural, social life of certain historical period, sometimes even of witnesses of the whole epoch. This historical source is very important for history of book and library. Their analysis can fill gaps in research of cultural communication of certain periods. Library catalogue is an information search system giving better orientation in the library to the reader, satisfaction of his informational needs and expectations. Exploring of library catalogue can be multiform depending on the subject and object of the exploration. Scientific researches of library catalogues are not popular; they are rather additional source of book history. The old catalogues give possibility to reconstruct traditions and culture of forming catalogues of that time, retrieve regulations and specifics of their forming. The article reveals content of catalogues of institutional, personal libraries of 19th-20th centuries preserved in the Rare Book and Manuscript Department of Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, their provenance attributes and physical features, making emphasis on Lithuanian books in these libraries. These are catalogues or lists of books owned of Samogitian Seminary, Ateitininkai Chapter established by Lithuanians who moved to Voronezh (Russia) during the 1st World War, The Januškevičiai (progenitors of the Dobužinskiai family), explorer of Lithuanian language Kazimieras Jaunius. These catalogues were selected from library catalogues of the National Library, because the institutions and persons mentioned were important for Lithuanian history and culture. Old library catalogues present evidence what important sources they can be for exploring of various historical stages of the country, historical and cultural heritage of various institutions, organizations or personalities, cultural and informational communication, distribution of a certain book, its popularity in libraries of various levels, culture and traditions of library catalogues forming during the certain time period.