Palanga Progymnasium

However, due to World War I, the school was evacuated in September 1915 first to Võru in Estonia and then to Stavropol in North Caucasus.

[4] The school occupied a two-floor brick building constructed by bishop Ignacy Jakub Massalski (1726–1794).

They organized small student groups and shared the banned Lithuanian press which was smuggled from East Prussia.

[3] Their activities were supported by Catholic school chaplains Marcijonas Povilas Jurgaitis [lt] and Juozapas Viksva.

School chaplain Kazimieras Genys [lt] resisted such orders, but fearing persecution traveled to Rome to study canon law.

[3] In 1899, two students participated in staging America in the Bathhouse, the first public Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania.

[6] In February 2018, for the 100th anniversary of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, a monument titled the Alley of the Signatories was unveiled at the location of the school.