Rapolas Skipitis
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Rapolas Skipitis was a Lithuanian attorney and politician. In 1920–1922, he was Minister of the Interior and was later elected to the Second and Third Seimas. After the 1926 coup d'état, he chaired th
Portrait of Skipitis in Lithuania Album (1921)
Skipitis (right) with collector Aleksandras Mykolas Račkus (left) who gifted his large numismatic collection to Lithuania during the first Congress of the World Lithuanians in 1935
Kazys Grinius
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Kazys Grinius was the third President of Lithuania, holding the office from 7 June 1926 to 17 December 1926. Previously, he had served as the fifth Prime Minister of Lithuania, from 19 June 1920 until
Rapolas Skipitis
…were very few Lithuanians with a legal education (later, in his memoirs, Skipitis claimed that there were no more than 20). As such, Prime Minister Kazys Grinius invited him to become the Minister of the Interior on 19 June 1920. At the time, the ministry was in charge of numerous areas, including civil…
Grinius in 1926
Grinius's family in 1908
Grinius in 1919
Grinius in Alytus, 1920