Pirmojo pasaulinio karo metais sudarytų Rusijoje ir į Lietuvą parvežtų archyvų istorijos bruožai.

Abstract

The article deliberates on the travel of certain documents from Russia to the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Even for the organized groups of returning Lihuanians and for educational institutions it was sometimes challenging to carry documents on the way from Russia to Lithuania; meanwhile, for solitary Lithuanians the road home was strewn with difficulties. In spite of the problems, a significant part of the documents belonging to Lithuanian organizations was successfully relocated to Lithuania. Between the wars, the library and the Culture Museum at the Faculty of Humanities of Vilnius University obtained some of the documents collected from Russia. In 1950-1962, a part of the Lithuanian societies' documents brought from Russia was transferred to the Manuscript Department of the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The reasons for the transfer were the reorganization of the Kaunas State University and the regulations of the Lithuanian Institute of Language and Literature that allowed to keep only the documents pertaining to the subject area of the institute. Private donations also much added to the collection.