Habilitated doctor; head of the Department of Comparative Culture Studies at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute; Professor at Vilnius University and the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, president of the Lithuanian Aesthetic Association; and expert member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. More

Poet, essayist, translator, diplomat. J. Baltrušaitis was one of the most famous symbolists of Russian and Lithuanian poetry, who was fluent not only in Russian and Lithuanian, but also in English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian and French. He has translated a great number of works of foreign writers (H. Ibsen, O. Wilde, A. Strindberg, G. Byron and others) into Russian; has translated the poetry of Nobel Prize winner Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore and prepared his poem “Gitanjali” for the press. J. Baltrušaitis helped with publishing symbolist review “Vesy”, “Severnye cvety”; as well as various magazines, newspapers, almanacs, anthologies and occasional collections.

Characteristics of J. Baltrušaitis’ poetry: the one he has written in Russian is full of philosophical reflections of the truth of More

Statesman, lawyer, philosopher, educator, professor, Prime Minister of Republic of Lithuania, one of the twenty signatories of the Act of 16 February (Act of Independence of Lithuania), author of a huge number of academic articles, publisher and editor of many periodical magazines and newspapers. The main academic fields of interest: philosophy, history, pedagogy, religion and history of religion. While analyzing the history of Western philosophy and religion P. Dovydaitis looked for analogies between Western and Eastern (mostly Middle East) cultures, compared their beliefs, analyzed the reasons of their differences and the areas of cultural influence.

P. Dovydaitis claimed that religion and science complement and give a sense to each other. He thought that religion is one More

Valdas Jaskunas is Oriental centre indology associate professor, \”Kultūrologija. Komparatyvistinės studijos\” (Cultural studies. Comparative studies) magazine editorial board member, annual international conference \”Azijos studijos. Problemos ir tyrinėjimai\” (Asian studies. Problems and research) organizing committee member, \”Acta Orientalia Vilnesia\” editorial board secretary, \”Rytai – Vakarai\” (East – West) conference organizing committee member, culture, philosophy and art … More

Educator, linguist, translator, boxer, polyglot. Devoted to philology, knew around 30 languages. R. Mironas was interested in old languages such as Sanskrit, Oriya, Latin, Old Greek languages. He also knew French. India and its languages were one of his passions, he was able to inspire the interest to his students into studying Sanskrit and later Hindi language which he studied independently and managed to gather a small group of students who he taught. He wrote various textbooks and  More

Romualdas Neimantas was a member of Lithuanian Scientific Society, historian of culture, orientalist, Doctor of History Sciences.

The main topic of Neimantas’s academic researches was Cultural relations and interaction between Lithuania and Eastern countries. Discussing this topic he published numerous articles, over 30 books and made speeches at various academic conferences in Lithuania and foreign countries.

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Algimantas Prazauskas was born in 1941-04-26 , Mažeikiai and died in 2007-10-31. He was orientalist, historician, political scientist, socialist, humanitarian studies and history doctor, professor of Vytautas Magnus University Department of Political Science (Institute of Political Science and Diplomacy), head of the Centre for Asian Studies. More

Matas Šalčius was a Lithuanian traveler, journalist, writer, political figure.

In 1929, Šalčius together with other famous Lithuanian traveler Antanas Poška began a great journey through the Balkans, Greece, Egypt, Near East to India. After this travel he published six-volume series Svečiuose pas 40 tautų (Visiting 40 nations), which was awarded the National Press Prize.

Lithuanian Multimedia journalist, photographer, professional diver, writer, operator, professor and traveler. Berta is known as a photographer-traveler, who has traveled to multiple countries and shown them from an artistic cultural side in her photographs. Her work is admired by Taiwan, China, India, GB, France and USA. She is also the very first Lithuanian whose photographs were published in a popular magazine „National Geographic“.

Berta is achieving victory in many photography contests in different countries. Her work has achieved prize possessions in Russia, Britain, Czech Republic, UAE, Italy, China and Lithuania.