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Jurgis Savickis

Died in 1952

Jurgis Savickis was born on 4 May 1890 at Pagausantys, near Ariogala. He studied in Saint Petersburg, then painting in Kraków. Sent to Copenhagen in 1915 to help Lithuanian prisoners of war, he afterwards represented his country in Denmark and the Nordic countries, directed the Kaunas State Theatre and was a delegate to the League of Nations. Having stayed in the south of France after 1940, where he had had a villa built and lived off his lands, he died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on 22 December 1952.

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