Artem Petryk
@PetrykArte77040
Dr. Artem Petryk, historian (Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology, Klaipėda University), writer.
Occupiers in Lithuanian captivity. Red Army commanders and commissars held in the Kaunas POW camp. The Lithuanian War of Independence, 1919.
The emblem of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921). This promising Caucasian state was on track to become a free European-style republic, but its progress was halted by Russian military aggression in 1921. Moscow occupied Georgia, and stripped its people of freedom.
Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian students jointly commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Vilnius, 1930.
A cavalryman of the Ukrainian Army (the “Black Zaporozhians” regiment) tramples the Russian imperial flag, 1919. Period of the Ukrainian Revolution and War of Independence (1917–1921). Artwork by Bohdan Pirhach.
Today marks Ukrainian Statehood Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald – a victory of Polish and Lithuanian forces. A key date for the Baltic–Black Sea region. Painting: Artur Orlionov. Galician banners at the Battle of Grunwald, July 15, 1410.
Together in hardship. Deported Lithuanians and Ukrainians in the Irkutsk region of Russia, photo taken between 1949 and 1958.
On this page – about the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, and the nations that restored their statehood in 1918. Also about Kherson – a city at the epicenter of Europe’s largest war since 1945. Dr. Artem Petryk, Klaipėda University.
