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Baltrušaitis May,January,was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian, In addition to his important contributions to Lithuanian literature, he was noted as a political activist and diplomat, Himself one of the foremost exponents of iconology, he was the father of art historian and critic Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr, Baltrušaitis was born to a family of farmers in Paantvardys village near Jurbarkas, which was then under Imperial Russian rule, In, he entered Kaunas gymnasium, and graduated inhe then entered the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Moscow University, At the same time, he attended lectures in the Faculty of History and Philology, and s Jurgis Baltrušaitis May,January,was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian.
In addition to his important contributions to Lithuanian literature, he was noted as a political activist and diplomat, Himself one of the foremost exponents of iconology, he was the father of art historian and

critic Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr, Baltrušaitis was born to a family of farmers in Paantvardys village near Jurbarkas, which was then under Imperial Russian rule, In, he entered Kaunas gymnasium, and graduated inhe then entered the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Moscow University, At the same time, he attended lectures in the Faculty of History and Philology, and studied foreign languages Baltrušaitis learnedforeign languages during his life.
Fromonwards, Baltrušaitis began to take part in editing Moscow based literary magazines, and he began his own creative work in Russian.
He joined the Symbolist movement, and, in association with Sergei Polyakov, set up the publishing house Scorpio, which published the chief Russian Symbolist magazines such as Vesy and Severnyie Tzvety as well as collections of the greatest Russian Symbolist poets.
A member of the city's cultural elite, Baltrušaitis was a close friend and colleague of such famous Russian writers and artists as Anton Chekhov, Konstantin Bal'mont, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maksim Gorky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Mikhail Vrubel, and Aleksandr Scriabin Boris Pasternak was the private home tutor of Baltrušaitis's children.
Baltrušaitis published three collections of poetry in Russian, and another three in Lithuanian, He authored many Russian translations of modern literature, including ones from Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, and Gabriele D'Annunzio, His translation of Hunger by Hamsun is considered a classical rendering of this work into Russian, and has been continuously republished right up to contemporary times.
Betweenand, Baltrušaitis lived in Italy and Norway and spent much time traveling in other countries in Western Europe, During World War I and the subsequent Russian Revolution he was in Russia, where he actively participated in the Lithuanian political struggle for independence.
Inhe was elected President of the Russian Union of Writers, and was known for his efforts to help and rescue many writers and intellectuals during the first years of the Bolshevik regime.
After Lithuania regained independence in, Baltrušaitis was appointed Lithuania's ambassador to Russia inand held this position until, Inhe was honored with a doctorate by Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, In, Baltrušaitis was appointed a counselor of the Lithuanian embassy in Paris, Following the annexation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, his son, Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr, an art and art critic, served as a diplomat for the Lithuanian diplomatic service which continued to represent Lithuanian interests in some Western countries.
Baltrušaitis Sr. died in Paris in Januaryhe is buried at Montrouge cemetery, sitelink sitelink sitelink.