Lithuanian sculptors chronicle the times through the Soviet era to today.
By Adam B. Ellick
Famed Lithuanian sculptor Dr. Konstantinas Bogdanas sits in his tiny Vilnius studio surrounded by dozens of his sensitive portraits. In the far right corner is Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, while rock legend Frank Zappa stares from the left. But the subject that [...]

A mass grave in Vilnius sheds light on a catastrophic military campaign that changed the course of Europe.
By Michael Tarm
Anthropologist Arunas Barkus pokes at a leg bone in a pile of brittle skeletal remains tagged No. 151 and spread across an autopsy table at Vilnius University. At the touch of his fingers, dried marrow crumbles [...]

As the French occupied Vilnius, fires raged and smoke billowed some 300 kilometers away in Riga, destroying vast tracts of the outlying city and leaving upwards of 10,000 Latvians homeless.
The thrust of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia ended up cutting through Lithuania, with Vilnius becoming the main staging platform for the attack. But Czarist generals believed [...]