He was its director from 1927 until 1933 when he was accused of tampering with litas money stamps, accumulating enormous personal wealth.

Sruoga was born on 12 March 1886 in the village of Baibokai [lt] near Vabalninkas, then part of the Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire.

Sruoga then worked as a telegraph mechanic in Transcaucasia, and also was assigned to head the technical school of the Caucasian Railway Battalion.

[7] Described as a wealthy salon-visiting aphorist,[8] Sruoga owned Justas Paleckis's newspaper Naujas žodis, the Tulpė bookstore in Kaunas, a printing house of the same name, and had shares in other companies.

Sruoga asserted his innocence by claiming that the stamps were product defects, and that which he had was part of a personal collection.