55

LITHUANIA

Value

5 Litai

Issued by

Lietuvos Bankas

Date

1993


 Jonas Jablonskis

 Sculpture "Lietuvos mokykla" or "Vargo mokykla" ("School of Misery"; by Petras Rimša)
Symbol of restistence against the prohibition of the Lithuanian press by the Russian Tsar from 1864 to 1904. Books in Lithuanian language had to be read secretly in the schools. Here a mother reads with her child whilst she is spinning.
55a

issued note


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