Antakalnis Cemetery (Template:Lang-lt, Template:Lang-pl), sometimes referred as Antakalnis Military Cemetery, is the cemetery in Antakalnis district of Vilnius in Lithuania. It has been established in 1809. The victims of Soviet Army forces' attacks during the January Events of 1991 and the Medininkai Massacre are buried here. Graves of Polish soldiers died 1919-1920 and a mausoleum of Lithuanian as well as German and Russian soldiers fallen in World War I and Red Army soldiers (1951, rebuilt 1976-1984) of World War II are to be found here.
The famous people buried in the Antakalnis Cemetery include:
- Marian Zdziechowski (1861-1938) - historian
- Teodor Bujnicki (1907-1944) - poet (killed by the AK)
- Ieva Simonaitytė (1897-1978) - writer
- Antanas Venclova (1906-1979) - writer
Saulės Cemetery
The Saulės Cemetery is another cemetery in Antakalnis sometimes credited as Antakalnis Cemetery. It is the old parish cemetery of St. Peter and St. Paul Church, established in 1830. Famous people buried here include members of Oginski and Zawisza families, Danielius Alseika, Jonas Kazlauskas, Teodoras Valaitis and Józef Zawadzki (1781-1838), the editor of the first poems of Adam Mickiewicz.
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