- The life of the family was
mostly connected with the study. There is furniture made by
famous masters of Anyksciai. You can see portraits of
Vienuolis’ son Stasys and daughter Laima, a desk with an
open book and a pair of glasses on it. A leaflet of the
calendar and the clock show the time and the date of
Vienuolis’ death. Vienuolis, dressed in Osetian national
clothes is in the photo above the desk. It reminded him
about his nicest young days spent in the Caucasus
(1903–1907). There is a rich library by the wall. More
than 1300 books are kept in it. A round table, where guests
used to sit, stands in the middle of the room. Vienuolis was
the first, who bought a radio-set in Anyksciai. His guests
often used to listen to it. A stick is suspended on the
radio table.
- The visitors can see Vienuolis’
office, his wife’s room, a small room where the wards Rita
Ruigyte, Brone Zeimyte, Sofija Baranauskaite, Galia Antipova
lived and a small kitchen too. The furniture and the
memorial things are left there.The writer always asked his
guests to visit the A.Baranauskas Granary, where he founded
the first memorial museum in Lithuania in 1927.A.Vienuolis
liked his house, the Granary, his garden and the birches,
planted by A.Baranauskas’ brothers.On August 22, 1955
Vienuolis wrote the testament and asked to bury him near his
house and put a fieldstone with the hewed cross on it. He
asked to write “A.Vienuolis” and the dates of birth and
death on it.
- Vienuolis
died on August 17, 1957. It was not allowed to hew the
cross. His wife Leokadija Zukauskiene asked the architect
V.Gabriunas to design a hidden cross, but she didn’t
succeed. Only on June 13, 1989 the writer’s will was
fulfilled.