This Friday, the state funeral of the leaders and participants of the 1863-1864 uprising will be held in Vilnius. The program of the ceremony approved by the government provides for a ceremonial line-up in Vilnius, On the Cathedral Square, St. Mass in the Vilnius Archcathedral Basilica, funeral procession through the streets of Vilnius and a stop at the Gates of Dawn. The final farewell will be held in the chapel of the Old Races Cemetery, where the commanders and participants of the uprising will be laid to rest.
In honor of the leaders of the uprising, participants and all those who fought and died for Freedom, commemorative volleys will be heard in the Old Races cemetery.
St. Mass will be held at St. manager Stanislaus and St. Vladislav Archcathedral Basilica. St. Archbishop Metropolitan Gintaras Grušas will celebrate the mass, bishops of Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and army chaplains will participate.
At the funeral ceremony, hymns will be sung in Lithuanian, Polish and Belarusian languages.
in 2017 January 3 after the start of maintenance work on the slopes of Mount Gediminas, burials were accidentally found on the site of the mountain. After making sure that it was the participants of the 1863-1864 uprising, killed in Vilnius Lukiškiai square, remains, the search was extended and the remains of 20 persons were exhumed. It was decided to hold a state funeral ceremony for the leaders and participants of the rebels of 1863-1864, in cooperation with Poland, held a month later in 2019. November 22 The remains will be buried in Vilnius Rasu cemetery.
1863th century At the end of the 1864th century, after Russia, Prussia and Austria divided the state of Poland and Lithuania, the lands of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania were transferred to the Russian Empire. Throughout the XNUMXth century in various lands of the former state there were several uprisings against the enslaved. One of the last attempts to restore an independent state was the uprising of XNUMX-XNUMX.
This rebellion against the Russian Empire began in 1863. January in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland. It soon spread to the former lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the current territory of Belarus and Lithuania, and in Ukraine. The rebels sought to restore the independent state of Poland and Lithuania with the 1772 borders, to grant equal civil rights to all residents, and to give land to peasants. In Lithuania, the insurgents particularly emphasized the struggle for the restricted rights of the Catholic Church, while in Belarus the insurgency and its leader Konstantinas Kalinauskas are associated with the formation of the modern Belarusian nation. Nearly 200 people participated in the uprising. representatives of various social circles. The power of the Russian Empire in 1864. suppressed the uprising and started repression against the participants of the uprising and those who supported it. The uprising remained in the memory of the nations that participated in it as a symbol of the uncompromising struggle for freedom, the right of nations to independent life and civil rights.
in 1863 June - 1864 In March, with the approval of the Governor General of Vilnius, Michail Muravjov, 21 people were executed by hanging or shooting in Lukiški Square, among them - the two main commanders of the Lithuanian uprising - Zigmantas Sierakauskas and Konstantin Kalinauskas. Others were sentenced to death for various acts of resistance to the tsarist government: Boleslov Koliška - for leading a group of rebels, priests Stanislaus Išora and Raimund Zemackis - for reading the manifesto of the uprising in churches, nobles Julian Lesnevski and Albert Liasković - for calling the peasants to revolt, Joozaps Jablonski, Alexander and Joozaps Revkovskis and Karolis Sipavičiis - for organizing an attempt on the noble commander of the Vilnius Governorate Aleksandras Domeikas. Jan Benkovskis and Jan Marčevskis, sent from Warsaw by the leadership of the uprising to kill Aleksandars Domeikas, the leader of the Vilnius nobles, and the member of the secret police, Kaunas Governorate nobleman Eduards Čaplinskis, who helped them, were sentenced to death by hanging together in Lukiški Square. Mečislovas Dormanovskis from Warsaw and Ignacijus Zdanavičius and Titas Dalevskis from Vilnius were executed as leaders of the uprising organization. The former officers and soldiers of the Russian army who contributed to the uprising and were captured in various rebel groups were also shot - Henrikas Makovecki, Vladislaus Nikoliajus, Kazimierus Sičiuk and Jokub Chechan.
Those who fought and died continued and passed on to future generations the tradition of fighting for the freedom of the Motherland, the Government's announcement reads.
