Літоўская кнігарня Марыі ПясяцкайцеШлапялене ў Вільні і яе роля ў пашырэнні беларускамоўнага друку ў 1906–1908 гадах
The Marija Piaseckaitė-Šlapelienė’s Lithuanian Bookshop in Vilna (Vilnius) and its Role in Distribution of Belorussian-language Print at 1906–1908

Summary/Abstract: In 1906–1945 there was a Lithuanian bookshop of Marija Piaseckaitė-Šlapelienė in Vilna (Vilnius). Nowadays the building is preserved at the address Dominikonų g. 11. In 1906–1908 it was one of the distribution centers of Belorussian print: newspapers of Vilna called «Nasza dola», «Nasza niwa», books of St. Petersburg publishing house «Zahlianie sonca iŭ naša akonca» as well as illegal Belorussian issues such as, for example, the collection of poems of a Belorussian poetess Ciotka «Skrypka bielorusska Haŭryly zPalacka» (Żółkiew, 1906). In 1907 there was a search in the bookshop because of the selling of Ciotka’s collection. The book was confiscated and a criminal case was open against Piaseckaitė-Šlapelienė. Previously unknown facts were discovered in correspondence of Piaseckaitė-Šlapelienė and her husband Jurgis Šlapelis in relation to their contacts with Belorussian organizations and leaders of Vilna at the beginning of the ХХ century.

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