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Pilotiškės is a village in Prienai District Municipality, Kaunas County, Lithuania.
In 2001 its population was 44.[1] In 2021 it dropped to 17.[2]
The village is best known as the birthplace of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas, Lithuanian poet and writer, [3] and there is Putinas's house museum in his birth home.[4]
The mound Krušakalnis by the village was described in Putinas's novel Altorių šešėly (In the Shadow of the Altars) under the name Aušrakalnis,[3] and the mound has become known as Aušrakalnis since then.[5]
References edit
- ^ KAUNO APSKRITIES KAIMO GYVENAMOSIOS VIETOVĖS IR JŲ GYVENTOJAI, Lithuanian Department of Statistics
- ^ Gyventojai gyvenamosiose vietovėse: Lietuvos Respublikos 2021 metų gyventojų surašymo rezultatai, Lithuanian Department of Statistics
- ^ a b Justina Sinkevičiūtė "V. Mykolaičio-Putino gimtinė ir Pilotiškių kaimo padavimai"
- ^ "Vinco Mykolaičio-Putino gimtoji sodyba-muziejus"
- ^ "Legenda apie tai, kaip Krušakalnis tapo Aušrakalniu" ("The Legend of how Krušakalnis became Aušrakalnis"), Lietuvos muziejų kelio ("The Road of Lithuanian Museums" program)