Liudas Vaineikis

He studied medicine at Moscow University but was expelled when he was arrested together with member of Atgaja Society which he helped establishing in 1889.

In 1899, he managed to obtain a government permit for America in the Bathhouse (Amerika pirtyje), the first Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania.

He was sentenced to five years of internal exile in February 1902 but was released after the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in 1904.

He contributed articles to Ūkininkas, Varpas, Žemaičių ir Lietuvos apžvalga, maintained contacts with various Lithuanian activists, including socialists Andrius Domaševičius and Vincas Kapsukas.

[2] Living close to the Russia–Prussia border, he supported Lithuanian book smugglers and also organized the smuggling and distribution of Latvian and Russian social democratic publications.

[5][4] In 1899, he managed to obtain a government permit for America in the Bathhouse (Amerika pirtyje), the first Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania.

Thus, the police began much wider investigations and searched many prominent Lithuanians resulting in multiple arrests.

[8] He then moved to Tilsit in East Prussia where he joined activities of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.

[12] He supported the Communist Party of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Red Aid[13] (his daughter Liuda was an active member of both).

[14] Due to political disagreements with the regime of President Antanas Smetona, Vaineikis was forced to leave Palanga for Alsėdžiai.

Vaineikis was selected as a deputy of mayor Jonas Šliūpas, but was not officially confirmed[15] (ostensibly due his "old" age of 64).

[1] He was cremated and, with the help of General Vladas Nagevičius, the urn with his ashes was added to a wall in the Vytautas the Great War Museum.

It was removed during World War II and is now kept at the Anatomy Museum of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.