The Excursion to Tilsit is a 1917 collection of short stories or novellas by the German writer Hermann Sudermann.

Miks Bumbullis A murderer needs to visit the grave of his daughter to please the goddess of death, despite knowing that the police will be there waiting for him.

The Hired Girl (Die Magd) Margaret Wallace of The Bookman wrote: Like Selma Lagerlöf, and many other novelists whose material is national and even provincial, Sudermann by his very unconcern with cosmopolitan values gives a deeper truth and meaning to the lives of his characters.

Of these four stories of Lithuanian peasants, only one, "Miks Bumbullis", depends for its effect upon purely national traits and circumstances.

[3]The Outlook reviewed the book: Excursion to Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann is a collection of powerful short stories dealing with the life of Lithuanian peasants.