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One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne

One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne

In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish control

“All Is Lost. I Am Chased by English”: How Estonia Got a Navy

“All Is Lost. I Am Chased by English”: How Estonia Got a Navy

In 1918, the Baltic was ablaze with a range of conflicting polities. All along the littoral, a plethora of factions staged a bloody and vicious conflict for control of the region...

A Small Town's "Belle Époque": Long-Lost Images from Interwar Latvia

A Small Town's "Belle Époque": Long-Lost Images from Interwar Latvia

"Now the time has come to bring back the forgotten reality to its deserved place... to understand that life here was rather different in comparison with the inhabitants of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz."

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One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne

In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish controlContinue Reading →

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Borderland Complexities: Photos of the Baltics' Eastern Edges

The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and 2022 along the eastern borders of Estonia and Latvia. The…Continue Reading →

Estonia deepbalticOctober 28, 2024 0

“All Is Lost. I Am Chased by English”: How Estonia Got a Navy

In 1918, the Baltic was ablaze with a range of conflicting polities. All along the littoral, a plethora of factions staged a bloody and vicious conflict for control of the…Continue Reading →

Feature Article deepbalticMay 22, 2024 0

Words Lost in the Forest: The Strange Case of "Pagan Dialects from Narew"

A chance discovery deep in a Belarusian forest gave a glimpse into the extinct Baltic language YotvingianContinue Reading →

Feature Article deepbalticFebruary 21, 2024 0

Holy Cats and Salted Mushrooms – ’90s Life on the Latvian-Russian Border

"I realise just now that this story about the sleigh in the winter could have happened in the 19th century as well as the 20th, and for some perhaps it…Continue Reading →

culture

One City, Many Stories: The Interwar Art of Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne

In the years after World War I, Vilnius spent stretches, some very short, under German, Lithuanian, Soviet and Polish control

Borderland Complexities: Photos of the Baltics' Eastern Edges

The project Baltic Borders, led by photographer and videographer Sami Siva, results from a period of fieldwork in 2021 and…

A Small Town's "Belle Époque": Long-Lost Images from Interwar Latvia

"Now the time has come to bring back the forgotten reality to its deserved place... to understand that life here…

Three Kings: The Strange, Subversive Tale of the Vilnius Jazz Trio

"Rock did very little to change anything in Cold-War Europe – jeans and hairstyles excepted. It was jazz, not rock,…

The Most Natural Part of Life: (Invisible?) Monumental Painting in Estonia

A roundtable discussion was held about monumental painting, its possibilities and future place, drawing on their personal experience

Reflections on a Dark Lithuanian Fairytale: Translating Ričardas Gavelis

Ričardas Gavelis was one of Lithuania's best-known writers of recent decades, with a caustic and satirical vision that seems to…

Travel

Paper, Beer and Lighthouses: Industrial Heritage in Estonia and Latvia

Industrial heritage is part of our cultural patrimony, helping us to reach a broader understanding of history and the development…

In Search of Šmakovka: a Latvian Region’s Four Moonshine Museums

Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apart

What I Saw Walking the Baltic Way Thirty Years On

"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"

Traces of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in Tallinn

Estonia's capital hosted the sailing events for the 1980 Olympics, leading to a burst in construction

Black Balsam: Latvia's National Treasure Danish Island's Liquid Pleasure

A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish island

The Train Station Ateljee: Stumbling Across Estonia’s Distant History

Somehow, this display has affected me more than all the statues I’ve seen in city centres all over the world,…

Interviews

Imagining Lithuania’s Wolf Children: An Interview with Alvydas Šlepikas

"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to…

Mapping Folklore: Mythical Creatures of the Baltics and Beyond

Vilnius University Press's "Mythical Creatures in Europe" map collects creatures from every corner of the continent

The Interwar Plan for a “Backup Lithuania”: An Interview with Karolis Kaupinis

"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."

The Shadow in the East: An Interview with Aliide Naylor

"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the…

"The Forest Is in Our DNA": Lithuania's Ancient Woods

"We can be proud that we have these in Lithuania, because in Western Europe these were already gone a hundred…

The Other Estonian Language: Preserving and Promoting Võro

North Estonian came to dominate in the 19th century and became the basis for modern standard Estonian, while South Estonian…