Konstantinas Avižonis Lenkijos archyvuose 1933–1934 metais
Konstantinas Avižonis in the Polish Archives in 1933–1934

Summary/Abstract: Konstantinas Avižonis (1909–1969) was one of the first Lithuanian historians who went to the archives in Poland after 1920 when diplomatic relations between the two states were severed. He received PhD at the University of Berlin and began to explore terra incognita in the Lithuanian historiography – the period after the Union of Lublin, 1569. K. Avižonis wrote the report about his work in the archives and libraries of Poland (mostly in Krakow). There he found a large amount of historical documents. Instructions, testaments, inventories, correspondence, trial decisions, memoirs, biographies etc were valuable sources which enabled the historian to evaluate social, economic and cultural life of the nobility. This material served as a basis for the greatest work in the Lithuanian historiography in 1918–1940’s – a monograph which was written by K. Avižonis about the Lithuanian nobility during the era of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania and the Kings of Poland Vasas. This publication is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of this prominent historian.

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