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Kražiai massacre

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407: 735: 398: 29: 472:. Lithuanian sources published 16 names of flogged men, but claimed that they numbered 69. Using the excuse of searching for escaped church defenders, the Cossacks were allowed to plunder the town and surrounding villages for two weeks. They raped women – a source from 1933 counted 24 women, including two pregnant women and a 12-year old gang raped by eight Cossacks. Dozens were injured. Nine people died due to beatings and other injuries. There were rumors of people drowning in the nearby 617:, devoted significant attention to the events. They exaggerated casualties and claimed, for example, that 300 Lithuanians were killed or that 600 women were raped. The press attacked the popular notion of "good Tsar, bad bureaucrats" and praised Kražiai defenders as martyrs and an inspirational example for others to follow. The Lithuanian press also covered the trial, publishing defense attorney speeches and special prayers for the defendants. Soon separate booklets were published in 496: 642: 180: 508: 337:. Orzhevsky was a strong supporter of the various Russification policies and perhaps hoped that his strict stance would gain him favor in Saint Petersburg and restart his political career. The Tsar ordered the monastery and church closed and demolished on 22 June 1893; the stones and bricks were to be used to construct an agricultural school. 468:, and stones. The Cossacks aimed their blows to the head and face as those wounds would be easily spotted later and would help searching for those who managed to escape. The Cossacks freed Klingenberg who ordered the town surrounded and every Catholic, regardless of age or sex, arrested. The arrested men were flogged with 256:) local residents attempted to protest and resist the closures. The monastery and church in Kęstaičiai were guarded by locals, but closed using a Cossack unit and demolished in 1887. According to the memoirs of Kražiai survivors, they had received tips from people involved in defending the Kęstaičiai monastery. 583:
and some other items to the parish church in Kražiai, but many other items were looted. The church was left essentially empty and was closed, but not demolished. It was returned to the parish in 1908 and, after extensive repairs, reopened on 4 September 1910. Other monastery buildings, except for the
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published a two-volume historical novel about the events. There were other plans for commemorating the events with special medals, monument, or enlarged museum all aimed at the anticipated grand ceremony in 1943, the 50th anniversary. However, any such plans were interrupted by World War II and the
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monastery in Kražiai. The locals petitioned to keep the monastery's Church of the Immaculate Conception open and transform it into a parish church. The Tsar ordered the monastery closed and demolished in June 1893. The locals started a constant vigil inside the church, protecting it from members of
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to showcase their loyalty to the Tsar and pleading him to wait for the Tsar to respond to their latest petition. Klingenberg brought about 70 policemen and ordered them to remove the residents (about 300–400 people) from the church. Lithuanians resisted and overpowered the police. Chief of the
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The Benedictine nuns attempted to delay their move to Kaunas using various excuses, including lack of warm clothing and ill health. Due to poor health, Aleksandra Sieliniewska, Benedykta Choromańska, Salomea Siemaszkówna, and Abbess Michalina Paniewska remained in Kražiai. They were visited by
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and two doctors to inspect their health. When the nuns would not allow the men into their monastery, they broke down the doors and forcibly removed the nuns escorting them to Kaunas. The nuns were forcibly removed on 25 October 1892 and 4 May 1893. This galvanized town residents who started a
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on 7 February 1892. They sent many other petitions, including a total of eight petitions to the Tsar himself, asking to convert the monastery church into a parish church and transform the crumbling wooden parish Church of the Archangel Michael into a cemetery chapel. Governor-General
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into just Polish or Lithuanian national identities and separation of the Lithuanian National Revival into two main branches (conservative Catholic and liberal secular). Polish press also covered the events, often claiming that the defenders were Poles organized and led by Polish
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The official Catholic hierarchy did not promote the memory of the event because the clergy was very passive if not supportive of the Tsarist authorities. The event was remembered in 1933, the 40th anniversary of the massacre. At the time, the authoritarian regime of
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The deceased were buried immediately, thrown into a pit meant for slaking lime at the local cemetery. The priests were forbidden from recording the names of the victims and performing funeral rites, including sprinkling the ground with holy water.
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and in support of the dual Polish-Lithuanian identity. Lithuanian press denied any involvement of Poles while Polish press blamed Lithuanians for fracturing the united front against the Tsarist regime. In March 1894,
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The scuffle continued through the night. Lithuanians attempted to negotiate with Klingenberg and force him to write a protocol admitting his wrongdoings. As prearranged, about 300 Cossacks from the
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personally arrived to the town to supervise the closure. Lithuanians resisted and overpowered 70 policemen that Klingenberg brought with him. The next morning, about 300 Don Cossacks arrived from
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attacked the encyclical because the pope urged compliance and obedience to the Tsarist regime and thus "betrayed the blood spilled in Kražiai". Defenders of the encyclical, including
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In total, 330 people were interrogated and 71 (34 peasants, 27 nobles, and 10 city residents; 55 men and 16 women) were arrested and put on trial in Vilnius. They were defended
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women's monastery in Kražiai dated since 1639. In 1757–1763, the monastery constructed the brick church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (architect
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to transfer the churches. However, on 1 January 1893, Kakhanov who was implicated in a corruption scandal (accused of misappropriating funds collected for a monument to
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and were given a free rein to loot and brutalize. According to official data, nine people died and 54 were injured. At least 24 women were raped and 16 men flogged with
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The church interior was almost fully demolished. Sculptures were smashed, paintings had bullet holes. Priests moved two side altars to the church in
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to pardon the people and commute the 10-year katorga to one year in prison. A collection of court documents was published in Polish in 1895.
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constant vigil inside the church to protect it and its valuables on 13 September 1893. Several times, local priests attempted to remove the
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personally arrived to the town in the late evening of 21 November. He was met by Lithuanians holding up two large portraits of Tsar
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was beaten and almost hanged, but freed by the Russian policemen, while Klingenberg barricaded himself in a church choir balcony.
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wrote a play about the events. Lithuanians protested such attempts to usurp and appropriate the events in the spirit of the old
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who collected donations, held lectures, and organized protest rallies. The largest rallies were held on 28 January 1894 in
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attempted to lessen the influence of the Roman Catholic Church and thus weaken its main opponent, the
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on the church in Poland sparking a fierce debate between Catholic and secular Lithuanian activists.
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Historian Nerijus Udrėnas summarized that the events in Kražiai accelerated two major trends of the
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Collage of portraits of Kražiai defenders. Top center: four men who received 10-year sentences in
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arrived to the town early next morning. They easily overpowered Lithuanians armed with sticks,
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ordered the monastery closed and nine remaining nuns transferred to a Benedictine monastery in
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Kražių Švč. M. Marijos Nekaltojo Prasidėjimo bažnyčios kompleksas. Kultūrinės vertės aspektas
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News of the event quickly spread across Lithuania and reached international press, including
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regiment on Lithuanians protesting the planned closure of a Roman Catholic church in
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Two-volume historical novel on the massacre by Jonas Marcinkevičius (in Lithuanian)
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Interior of the Church of the Immaculate Conception before and after the massacre
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and did not know Russian. The trial was held on 20–29 September 1894 in
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who personally supervised the closure of the monastery church in Kražiai
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Michał Węsławski. Biography of the President of Vilnius in 1905-1916
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wanted to produce an epic film on the massacre, one of the first
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Poster of the Kražiai massacre published by Lithuanian Americans
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Michał Węsławski. Biografia prezydenta Wilna w latach 1905-1916
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Kražiai was a small town with 1,761 residents according to the
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and Poles Jan Maurycy Kamiński, Leon Dunin-Szostakowski, and
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efforts, the Tsarist government decided to close the women's
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river. The Cossacks confiscated 225 sticks and flails.
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Index


Kražiai
Kovno Governorate
Russian Empire
Don Cossacks
Lithuanian
Don Cossack
Kražiai
Russian Empire
Russification
Benedictine
Governor of Kaunas
Nikolay Klingenberg
ru
Varniai
nagaikas
Lithuanian National Revival

Governor of Kaunas
Nikolay Klingenberg
ru
Third Partition
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Russian Empire
uprisings in 1831
1863–1864
Russification
Lithuanian press ban
Roman Catholic Church
Samogitia

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