Tadas Blinda

Another has it that his landlord, Duke Ogiński, ordered him to flog some serfs, became angry when Blinda refused, and then struck him with a whip.

The popularly held version was that Duke Oginskis was finally able to gain revenge by organizing the local authorities and murdering him.

In 1993 an archivist uncovered police records indicating that he was lynched as a horse thief on April 22, 1877, and buried in an unconsecrated corner of a cemetery in Luokė.

It featured the actor Vytautas Tomkus, dramatic hand-to-hand combat and horsemanship, and the scenery of Aukštaitija National Park — it was an immediate success.

[1] A local railway tour re-enacts a train robbery by Blinda,[2] and Blindos beer by Švyturys-Utenos alus appeared in the 2000s.