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'''Liudas Vaineikis''' (1869 – 1938) was a physician and notable member of the [[Knygnešiai]] book sumggling movement during the [[Lithuanian press ban]] (1864-1904), when the printing and distribution of [[Lithuanian language]] materials using the [[Latin alphabet]] was illegal in the [[Russian]]-controlled parts of the region.
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'''Liudas Vaineikis''' (31 August 1869 – 17 January 1938) was a physician and notable member of the [[Lithuanian book smuggling]] movement during the [[Lithuanian press ban]] (1864&ndash;1904).


Already as a student at [[Mitau Gymnasium]], Vaineikis joined the [[Lithuanian National Revival]]. He studied medicine at [[Moscow University]] but was expelled when he was arrested together with member of Atgaja Society which he helped establishing in 1889. He managed to complete his degree at [[Kazan University]] and moved to [[Palanga]] to work as a physician. He continued to be involved in Lithuanian cultural life and smuggle illegal Lithuanian and social democratic publications. In 1899, he managed to obtain a government permit for ''[[America in the Bathhouse]]'' (''Amerika pirtyje''), the first Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania. He was arrested in 1900. His cased grew to involve many other prominent Lithuanian activists. He was sentenced to five years of internal exile in February 1902 but was released after the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in 1904.
Vaineikis, born in [[Šiauliai County]], enrolled in the [[University of Moscow]] medical school in 1889. He was arrested in connection with the press ban in 1896 and expelled, but succeeded in passing a qualifying examination the same year. He began practicing medicine in the city of [[Palanga]], while organizing resistance to the ban and maintaining connections with socialists and revolutionaries who opposed the rule of the [[Russian Empire]]. These activities led to his arrest in 1900; he spent two years at a prison in [[Liepaja]], [[Latvia]] and was then exiled to the [[Siberia]]n city of [[Yakutsk]] in 1902. After his release in 1905, he worked with the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party as an editor and organizer. He worked as a doctor in Central Asia between 1915 and 1920, returning to Palanga in 1921 and serving as the city's official physician after 1928.

During the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]], he supported the [[Lithuanian Social Democratic Party]] and edited the party's newspaper ''[[Darbininkų balsas (East Prussia)|Darbininkų balsas]]''. After around 1908, he distanced himself from political work. During World War I, he worked as a doctor in Central Asia. He returned to Palanga in 1922 and unsuccessfully participated in the elections to the [[Seimas]] (Lithuanian parliament). He was elected to the first city council of Palanga in 1932, but the Lithuanian government would not approve him as deputy mayor. He died of a heart disease in Kaunas in 1938.

==Biography==
===Early life and education===
Vaineikis was born on 31 August 1869 in {{ill|Svirpliai (Joniškis)|lt|lt=Svirpliai}} in the present-day [[Joniškis District Municipality]]. He received his first education at home and at a primary school in [[Joniškis]].<ref name=tsb/> He studied at the [[Mitau Gymnasium]] in 1881–1889 and joined the [[Lithuanian National Revival]].<ref name=zemai/> He chaired a secret society of Lithuanian students, read the [[Lithuanian press ban|banned Lithuanian press]], established contacts with revolutionary-minded workers' groups.<ref name=zemai/> In 1889, together with others, he established Atgaja, an illegal society of Lithuanian youth. Its members collected examples of [[Lithuanian folklore]] and [[Lithuanian book smuggling|smuggled Lithuanian publications]].<ref name=petru/>

Vaineikis continued his studies at the Medical Faculty of [[Moscow University]]. He continued to be active in Lithuanian cultural life. He chaired an illegal society of Lithuanian students and organized financial aid for the publication of Lithuanian newspaper ''[[Ūkininkas]]''.<ref name=zemai/> He was arrested in 1895 together with other members of Atgaja.<ref name=merky/> He was held in [[Šiauliai Prison]] and exiled for three years to [[Kazan]]. Expelled from Moscow University, he managed to pass the final exams and obtain his medical license at [[Kazan University]].<ref name=zemai/>

===Activist===
[[File:Amerika pirtyje 1899.jpg|thumb|300px|Organizers of ''[[America in the Bathhouse]]'' in Palanga. Vaineikis sit in the middle with the poster.]]
In 1897, he was allowed to move to [[Palanga]] (then part of the [[Courland Governorate]]) where he worked as a physician. He contributed articles to ''Ūkininkas'', ''[[Varpas]]'', ''[[Žemaičių ir Lietuvos apžvalga]]'', maintained contacts with various Lithuanian activists, including socialists [[Andrius Domaševičius]] and [[Vincas Kapsukas]].<ref name=zemai/> Living close to the Russia–Prussia border, he supported Lithuanian book smugglers and also organized the smuggling and distribution of Latvian and Russian social democratic publications.<ref name=vle/><ref name=merky/> In 1899, he managed to obtain a government permit for ''[[America in the Bathhouse]]'' (''Amerika pirtyje''), the first Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania. In 1900, he assisted in organizing the display of Lithuanian publications at the [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|world's fair in Paris]].<ref name=zemai/>

In April 1900, Tsarist police seized four bundles of illegal publications: three with Russian social democratic texts and one with Lithuanian publications. Further investigation revealed that this cargo was organized by Vaineikis.<ref name=merky/> When police searched his residence, they found a list of Lithuanians to whom Vaineikis sent the banned publications. Thus, the police began much wider investigations and searched many prominent Lithuanians resulting in multiple arrests.<ref name=krist/> Vaneikis was arrested in 1900 and spent about two years at prisons in [[Mitau]] and [[Liepāja|Libau]].<ref name=zemai/> On 27 February 1902, Tsar approved sentences (internal exile) of 23 Lithuanians, including Vaneikis, [[Augustinas Janulaitis]], [[Jonas Jablonskis]], [[Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis]], [[Rokas Šliūpas]], {{ill|Jonas Ambrozaitis|lt}}, {{ill|Vladas Požela|lt}}.<ref name=bausmes/>

Vaineikis was exiled to the [[Siberia]]n city of [[Yakutsk]] for five years. His wife [[Stasė Vaineikienė]] voluntarily accompanied him. In 1904, he helped combat an outbreak of [[smallpox]].<ref name=zemai/> He was released after the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in 1904.<ref name=dykov/> He then moved to [[Tilsit]] in [[East Prussia]] where he joined activities of the [[Lithuanian Social Democratic Party]]. Together with [[Andrius Domaševičius]], he edited the party's newspaper ''[[Darbininkų balsas (East Prussia)|Darbininkų balsas]]''<ref name=vidma/> and supported revolutionary causes. Around 1908, Vaineikis shifted his focus to more cultural and anti-religious [[freethought]] work.<ref name=zemai/>

===Later life===
He worked as a doctor in Central Asia ([[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Emirate of Bukhara]], [[Turkestan Autonomy]]) between 1915 and 1920. There, he witnessed power struggles, cruelty, and massacres during the [[Russian Civil War]].<ref name=beniu/> He returned to [[Palanga]] in 1921 and worked as a teacher at city's secondary school.<ref name=zemai/> As a representative of the [[Peasant Union]], he unsuccessfully ran in the elections to the [[First Seimas of Lithuania]] in October 1922.<ref name=europ1/> As an independent, he also ran in the elections to the [[Second Seimas]] in May 1923.<ref name=europ2/> He supported the [[Communist Party of Lithuania]] and the [[Lithuanian Red Aid]]<ref name=sarma2/> (his daughter Liuda was an active member of both).<ref name=sarma1/>

Due to political disagreements with the regime of President [[Antanas Smetona]], Vaineikis was forced to leave Palanga for [[Alsėdžiai]].<ref name=dykov/> After his return to Palanga, he became the city's official physician. Vaineikis and his wife were elected to the first city council in December 1932. Vaineikis was selected as a deputy of mayor [[Jonas Šliūpas]], but was not officially confirmed<ref name=paluc/> (ostensibly due his "old" age of 64).<ref name=zemai/>

For his contributions to the Lithuanian National Revival, Vaineikis was awarded the [[Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas]] (3rd degree) in 1928<ref name=vle/> and given a state pension of 380 [[Lithuanian litas|litas]].<ref name=zemai/>

Vaineikis died from a heart ailment on 17 January 1938 at the Jonas Basanavičius Military Hospital in [[Kaunas]].<ref name=tsb/> He was cremated and, with the help of General [[Vladas Nagevičius]], the urn with his ashes was added to a wall in the [[Vytautas the Great War Museum]]. It was removed during World War II and is now kept at the Anatomy Museum of the [[Lithuanian University of Health Sciences]].<ref name=dykov/>

==Legacy==
Vaineikis house in Palanga was demolished in 1973.<ref name=dykov/> At this location, a bust of Vaineikis by architect Rūsna Vaineikytė (Vaineikis' granddaughter) and sculptor {{ill|Jonas Jagėla|lt}} was erected in 1989.<ref name=krasto/>

==Personal life==
In 1900,<ref name=tsb/> Vaneikis married [[Stasė Vaineikienė]] {{nee}} Paulauskaitė (1884–1946) who was half his age. She became a strong supporter his activities and helped smuggle the illegal publications.<ref name=speva/> They had three children, including Liuda Vaineikytė (1908–1997) who was an active member of the [[Lithuanian Communist Party]] and merited artists of the Lithuanian SSR (1958).<ref name=sarma1/>


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=bausmes>{{cite journal |title=Bausmės |journal=Darbininkų balsas |volume=4 |date=May 1902 |language=lt |url=https://www.epaveldas.lt/recordImageSmall/LNB/LNB0141A40A?exId=116967&seqNr=73 |page=71}}</ref>

<ref name=beniu>{{cite web |first=Romualdas |last=Beniušis |date=13 March 2023 |url=https://www.pajurionaujienos.com/?sid=24605&act=exp |title=Rašytoja Stasė Vaineikienė į skaitytojus prabilo ir uzbekiškai |publisher=Pajūrio naujienos |language=lt |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=dykov>{{cite web |first=Asta |last=Dykovienė |title=Aukojo gyvenimą, kad tautiečiai nepamirštų lietuviško žodžio |date=7 May 2012 |url= https://www.diena.lt/naujienos/klaipeda/miesto-pulsas/aukojo-gyvenima-kad-tautieciai-nepamirstu-lietuvisko-zodzio-586499 |website=Diena.lt |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=europ1>{{cite web |author=Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausioji rinkimų komisija |url=https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021803/LIMIS_388923565 |title=Lietuvos valstiečių sąjungos kandidatų į Lietuvos Respublikos I seimą IV rinkimų apygardoje sąrašas Nr. 10 |website=Europeana |date=1922 |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=europ2>{{cite web |author=Lietuvos Respublikos Vyriausioji rinkimų komisija |url=https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021803/LIMIS_389058669 |title=Mažeikių ir Kretingos nepartinių savivaldybininkų sąjungos "Savivalda" kandidatų į Lietuvos Respublikos II seimą IV rinkimų apygardoje sąrašas Nr. 18 |website=Europeana |date=1923 |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=krasto>{{cite web |title=Gydytojo, knygnešio Liudo Vaineikio biustas |year=2017 |author=Palangos miesto savivaldybės viešoji biblioteka |work=Krašto gidas |publisher=Klaipėdos apskrities Ievos Simonaitytės viešoji biblioteka |url=http://www.krastogidas.lt/objektai/442-gydytojo-knygnesio-liudo-vaineikio-biustas |language=lt |access-date=24 November 2023 }}</ref>

<ref name=krist>{{cite journal |first=Vilmantas |last=Krikštaponis |title=Tėvynę mylėjęs labiau negu pats save: Knygnešio, varpininkų judėjimo dalyvio, teisininko Motiejaus Čepo 145-osioms gimimo metinėms |url=https://www.xxiamzius.lt/numeriai/2011/12/28/atmi_01.html |volume=94 |issue=1974 |journal=XXI amžius |issn=2029-1299 |date=28 December 2011 |language=lt }}</ref>

<ref name=merky>{{cite book |first=Vytautas |last=Merkys |title=Knygnešių laikai 1864–1904 |publisher=Valstybinis leidybos centras |year=1994 |location=Vilnius |language=lt |isbn=9986-09-018-0 |pages=193, 208–209, 263, 356}}</ref>

<ref name=paluc>{{cite web |first=Virginija |last=Paluckienė |title=Palangos miesto savivaldai – 90 metų |url=https://www.palangostiltas.lt/palangos+miesto+savivaldai++90+metu,7,2,15153.html |publisher=Palangos tiltas |date=4 November 2022 |language=lt |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=petru>{{cite web |first=Daliutė |last=Petrulienė |date=31 March 2003 |title=Iš Joniškio krašto muziejaus rinkinių: Joniškio krašto knygnešiai (1864–1904 m.), "Atgaja" |url=http://www.spaudos.lt/muziejai/atgaja_joniskyje.htm |work=Lietuviškas žodis |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=sarma1>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Rokas |last=Šarmaitis | editor1-first=Jonas |editor1-last=Zinkus| encyclopedia=Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija | title=Vaineikytė, Liuda | year=1985–1988 | publisher=Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija |language=lt | volume=IV | location=Vilnius |oclc=20017802 | page=418 |display-editors=etal}}</ref>

<ref name=sarma2>{{cite encyclopedia |editor-first=Rokas |editor-last=Šarmaitis |title=Lietuvos Komunistų partijos istorijos apybraiža |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lietuvos_Komunist%C5%B3_partijos_istorijos_a/l2w5AQAAIAAJ |volume=2. 1920–1940 |publisher=Mintis |location=Vilnius |year=1978 |language=lt |page=392}}</ref>

<ref name=speva>{{cite web |first=Bronislava |last=Spevakovienė |title=Per gyvenimą – su žemaitišku atkaklumu |url=https://www.palangostiltas.lt/per+gyvenima++su+zemaitisku+atkaklumu,7,2,4677.html |publisher=Palangos tiltas |date=3 April 2014 |language=lt |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>

<ref name=tsb>{{cite journal |author=Tsb |title=Dr. Liudas Vaineikis – didysis lietuvių spaudos draudimo laikų kovotojas |date=16 February 1938 |url=https://www.spauda.org/naujienos/archive/1938/1938-02-16-NAUJIENOS.pdf |journal=Naujienos |volume=39 |issue=XXV |language=lt |page=4 }}</ref>

<ref name=vidma>{{cite book |last=Vidmantas |first=Edvardas |title=Lietuvos darbininkų periodinė spauda, 1895–1917 |publisher=Mintis |year=1979 |language=lt |oclc=6195352 |page=32}}</ref>

<ref name=vle>{{cite encyclopedia |first= |last= |date=22 February 2022 |orig-year=2018 |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/liudas-vaineikis/ |title=Liudas Vaineikis |encyclopedia=[[Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija]] |publisher=Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>


<ref name=zemai>{{cite web |url=https://zemaitiuzeme.lt/personalijos/vaineikis-liudas/ |title=Vaineikis Liudas |work=Žemaičių žemė |publisher=Regionų kultūrinių iniciatyvų centras |language=lt |access-date=25 November 2023 }}</ref>
* [http://www.spaudos.lt/Istorija/L_Vaineikis.en.htm Liudas Vaineikis]. The Lithuanian Word, reprinted from [[Encyclopedia Lituanica]], Boston 1970-1978.


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Liudas Vaineikis
Born(1869-08-31)31 August 1869
Svirpliai [lt], Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died17 January 1938(1938-01-17) (aged 68)
Kaunas, Lithuania
Alma materMitau Gymnasium
Moscow University
Occupation(s)Physician, activist, book smuggler
SpouseStasė Vaineikienė
AwardsOrder of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (1928)

Liudas Vaineikis (31 August 1869 – 17 January 1938) was a physician and notable member of the Lithuanian book smuggling movement during the Lithuanian press ban (1864–1904).

Already as a student at Mitau Gymnasium, Vaineikis joined the Lithuanian National Revival. He studied medicine at Moscow University but was expelled when he was arrested together with member of Atgaja Society which he helped establishing in 1889. He managed to complete his degree at Kazan University and moved to Palanga to work as a physician. He continued to be involved in Lithuanian cultural life and smuggle illegal Lithuanian and social democratic publications. In 1899, he managed to obtain a government permit for America in the Bathhouse (Amerika pirtyje), the first Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania. He was arrested in 1900. His cased grew to involve many other prominent Lithuanian activists. He was sentenced to five years of internal exile in February 1902 but was released after the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in 1904.

During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he supported the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party and edited the party's newspaper Darbininkų balsas. After around 1908, he distanced himself from political work. During World War I, he worked as a doctor in Central Asia. He returned to Palanga in 1922 and unsuccessfully participated in the elections to the Seimas (Lithuanian parliament). He was elected to the first city council of Palanga in 1932, but the Lithuanian government would not approve him as deputy mayor. He died of a heart disease in Kaunas in 1938.

Biography

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Early life and education

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Vaineikis was born on 31 August 1869 in Svirpliai [lt] in the present-day Joniškis District Municipality. He received his first education at home and at a primary school in Joniškis.[1] He studied at the Mitau Gymnasium in 1881–1889 and joined the Lithuanian National Revival.[2] He chaired a secret society of Lithuanian students, read the banned Lithuanian press, established contacts with revolutionary-minded workers' groups.[2] In 1889, together with others, he established Atgaja, an illegal society of Lithuanian youth. Its members collected examples of Lithuanian folklore and smuggled Lithuanian publications.[3]

Vaineikis continued his studies at the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. He continued to be active in Lithuanian cultural life. He chaired an illegal society of Lithuanian students and organized financial aid for the publication of Lithuanian newspaper Ūkininkas.[2] He was arrested in 1895 together with other members of Atgaja.[4] He was held in Šiauliai Prison and exiled for three years to Kazan. Expelled from Moscow University, he managed to pass the final exams and obtain his medical license at Kazan University.[2]

Activist

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Organizers of America in the Bathhouse in Palanga. Vaineikis sit in the middle with the poster.

In 1897, he was allowed to move to Palanga (then part of the Courland Governorate) where he worked as a physician. He contributed articles to Ūkininkas, Varpas, Žemaičių ir Lietuvos apžvalga, maintained contacts with various Lithuanian activists, including socialists Andrius Domaševičius and Vincas Kapsukas.[2] Living close to the Russia–Prussia border, he supported Lithuanian book smugglers and also organized the smuggling and distribution of Latvian and Russian social democratic publications.[5][4] In 1899, he managed to obtain a government permit for America in the Bathhouse (Amerika pirtyje), the first Lithuanian-language theater performance in present-day Lithuania. In 1900, he assisted in organizing the display of Lithuanian publications at the world's fair in Paris.[2]

In April 1900, Tsarist police seized four bundles of illegal publications: three with Russian social democratic texts and one with Lithuanian publications. Further investigation revealed that this cargo was organized by Vaineikis.[4] When police searched his residence, they found a list of Lithuanians to whom Vaineikis sent the banned publications. Thus, the police began much wider investigations and searched many prominent Lithuanians resulting in multiple arrests.[6] Vaneikis was arrested in 1900 and spent about two years at prisons in Mitau and Libau.[2] On 27 February 1902, Tsar approved sentences (internal exile) of 23 Lithuanians, including Vaneikis, Augustinas Janulaitis, Jonas Jablonskis, Gabrielius Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, Rokas Šliūpas, Jonas Ambrozaitis [lt], Vladas Požela [lt].[7]

Vaineikis was exiled to the Siberian city of Yakutsk for five years. His wife Stasė Vaineikienė voluntarily accompanied him. In 1904, he helped combat an outbreak of smallpox.[2] He was released after the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in 1904.[8] He then moved to Tilsit in East Prussia where he joined activities of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. Together with Andrius Domaševičius, he edited the party's newspaper Darbininkų balsas[9] and supported revolutionary causes. Around 1908, Vaineikis shifted his focus to more cultural and anti-religious freethought work.[2]

Later life

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He worked as a doctor in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Emirate of Bukhara, Turkestan Autonomy) between 1915 and 1920. There, he witnessed power struggles, cruelty, and massacres during the Russian Civil War.[10] He returned to Palanga in 1921 and worked as a teacher at city's secondary school.[2] As a representative of the Peasant Union, he unsuccessfully ran in the elections to the First Seimas of Lithuania in October 1922.[11] As an independent, he also ran in the elections to the Second Seimas in May 1923.[12] He supported the Communist Party of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Red Aid[13] (his daughter Liuda was an active member of both).[14]

Due to political disagreements with the regime of President Antanas Smetona, Vaineikis was forced to leave Palanga for Alsėdžiai.[8] After his return to Palanga, he became the city's official physician. Vaineikis and his wife were elected to the first city council in December 1932. Vaineikis was selected as a deputy of mayor Jonas Šliūpas, but was not officially confirmed[15] (ostensibly due his "old" age of 64).[2]

For his contributions to the Lithuanian National Revival, Vaineikis was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (3rd degree) in 1928[5] and given a state pension of 380 litas.[2]

Vaineikis died from a heart ailment on 17 January 1938 at the Jonas Basanavičius Military Hospital in Kaunas.[1] He was cremated and, with the help of General Vladas Nagevičius, the urn with his ashes was added to a wall in the Vytautas the Great War Museum. It was removed during World War II and is now kept at the Anatomy Museum of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.[8]

Legacy

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Vaineikis house in Palanga was demolished in 1973.[8] At this location, a bust of Vaineikis by architect Rūsna Vaineikytė (Vaineikis' granddaughter) and sculptor Jonas Jagėla [lt] was erected in 1989.[16]

Personal life

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In 1900,[1] Vaneikis married Stasė Vaineikienė née Paulauskaitė (1884–1946) who was half his age. She became a strong supporter his activities and helped smuggle the illegal publications.[17] They had three children, including Liuda Vaineikytė (1908–1997) who was an active member of the Lithuanian Communist Party and merited artists of the Lithuanian SSR (1958).[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Tsb (16 February 1938). "Dr. Liudas Vaineikis – didysis lietuvių spaudos draudimo laikų kovotojas" (PDF). Naujienos (in Lithuanian). 39 (XXV): 4.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Vaineikis Liudas". Žemaičių žemė (in Lithuanian). Regionų kultūrinių iniciatyvų centras. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  3. ^ Petrulienė, Daliutė (31 March 2003). "Iš Joniškio krašto muziejaus rinkinių: Joniškio krašto knygnešiai (1864–1904 m.), "Atgaja"". Lietuviškas žodis (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Merkys, Vytautas (1994). Knygnešių laikai 1864–1904 (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Valstybinis leidybos centras. pp. 193, 208–209, 263, 356. ISBN 9986-09-018-0.
  5. ^ a b "Liudas Vaineikis". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. 22 February 2022 [2018]. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
  6. ^ Krikštaponis, Vilmantas (28 December 2011). "Tėvynę mylėjęs labiau negu pats save: Knygnešio, varpininkų judėjimo dalyvio, teisininko Motiejaus Čepo 145-osioms gimimo metinėms". XXI amžius (in Lithuanian). 94 (1974). ISSN 2029-1299.
  7. ^ "Bausmės". Darbininkų balsas (in Lithuanian). 4: 71. May 1902.
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