Go back“Is it possible that such a small nation as Lithuanians may dream of being independent among such great imperialists as the Russians and the Germans?” – George Nathaniel Curzon Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Great Britain) in 1920. And 5 years later, in Kaunas, Cyril Douglas Elphick, Consul of Great Britain, openly prophesied Lithuania for no more than three years of independence.
Today it is the Valdas Adamkus Presidential Library-Museum – secession Michelson’s house of the early 20th century where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania was located. Today it is the KTU Central Administration Building – Agriculture Bank designed by an engineer Kārlis Reisons, in 1935 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. Hotel Lietuva in Gedimino Street, designed by architect V. Dubeneckis – the place for ambassadors’ visits. The German embassy in Gedimino Street and the residence of the German envoy on Vytautas hill. Martynas and Hipatija Yčai rented a building for Soviet Union Embassy. Italian Embassy was located in a villa of a businessman Polovinskas in Vydūno Avenue. Intriguing diplomatic stories: about Lithuania’s close cooperation with German intelligence and the secret award of the Lithuanian state to the German president. The route will be accompanied by the representatives of Klaipėda Modern Dance Theatre – choreographer Agnija Šeiko and dancer Gintarė Marija Ščavinskaitė. Improvised dance theatre stage in the spaces of Kaunas modernism.
