Vladas Nagevičius

[3] After receiving his primary education in Kretinga, Nagevičius studied at Palanga Progymnasium but was expelled for refusing to participate in Orthodox Church prayers.

[2] He continued his studies at the Alexander Gymnasium in Riga [lv], where he became involved in Lithuanian activities through Kipras Bielinis.

[2] He participated in the 1905 Russian Revolution and in 1905–1906 was imprisoned in Kaunas and Šiauliai for the distribution of proclamations by the Great Seimas of Vilnius.

[3] Prior to World War I, he researched ancient cemeteries of Kartena, Kiauleikiai, Kretinga, Maciuičiai, Norgėlai, Pociai, Pryšmančiai, Senkai, Skomantai, Šateriai, Viekšniai.

[1] In 1920, for merits in creating the Lithuanian Armed Forces, he received the homestead of Babtynas Manor [lt] with 20 hectares of land.

[2] In the Polonized Babtai District, he cherished Lithuanian national traditions and organized celebrations of Joninės every year, which were attended by Kaunas' intelligentsia and state leaders.

[2] In 1935, he published a book Mūsų pajūrio medžiaginė kultūra VIII–XIII amžiuje (Material Culture of Our Coast in the 8–13th Centuries).

[1] He was as an adviser to the Kaunas staff of the anti-Soviet resistance organization Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF), and together with other representatives of the LAF (e.g. Stasys Pundzevičius) signed a memorandum Apie Lietuvos būklę pradėjus veikti vokiečių civilinei valdžiai Lietuvoje (English: About the state of Lithuania after the beginning of the German civilian government in Lithuania).

[13] On 18 June 1991, to commemorate the 110th birth anniversary of Nagevičius, a memorial plaque with a bas-relief was unveiled in the lobby of the Vytautas the Great War Museum (sculptor Algirdas Bosas).

[10] In 1995, remains of Nagevičius and his wife were transported to Lithuania and reburied in his birthplace – the old parish cemetery of Kretinga where the entire Nagevičiai family is buried.

Nagevičius with his mother
Vladas Nagevičius (center) at the Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas during the interwar period