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„The Love of Sofija and Konstantinas”<\/h3>

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This is an exhibition of wedding rings by Mikolas Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis and Sofija \u010ciurlionien\u0117-Kymantait\u0117, which have never been publicly exhibited in Vilnius before, accompanied by fragments of their shared history, artifacts preserved by the family, photographs, memoirs and letters, excerpts of which were voiced by actors Vaiva Kvedaravi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 and Kristupas Bir\u017eietis. The exhibition aims to introduce one of Lithuania\u2018s most beautiful love stories, the indescribable friendship between two souls that was unexpectedly interrupted but never ended.<\/p>

„This painful but very romantic story touched me seven years ago and has never let go. And now I can share it. I believe that a very true exhibition has come out. And all out of very great love, which in today\u2018s world is becoming a symbol of the highest form of art, of goodness, of beauty, and of unattainable perfection.” \u2013 exhibition curator Livija Krivickait\u0117.<\/p>

„From Sofija\u2018s memoirs, we know well how spiritually and emotionally important was her first visit to \u010ciurlionis\u2018 room in Savi\u010dius Street in the early spring of 1908… How deeply they both experienced the budding sense of togetherness. It is symbolic that it is to this very room that the \u010ciurlionis\u2018 wedding rings and other historical documents, testifying to that magical time in the creative path of the two artists, have returned after more than a hundred years, like signs of eternal love. And the exhibition, which tells a common story in image, word, and sound, will, I believe, leave no one indifferent…” \u2013 \u00a0Rokas Zubovas<\/p>

„<…> I know that there are no obstacles we cannot overcome and no peaks we lack the courage to climb.” (From M. K. \u010ciurlionis\u2018 letter to Sofija, 26 November 1908, St. Petersburg)<\/p>

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For a quality exhibition experience, a smartphone and headphones are required. For the rare opportunity to expose the rings and other exhibits, we are grateful to the Sofija \u010ciurlionien\u0117-Kymantait\u0117 Memorial Museum and Dalia Ona Zubovait\u0117-Palukaitien\u0117.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mikalojus Konstantinas \u010ciurlionis, 32 years old, a promising composer, a graduate of two conservatories, moved from Warsaw to Vilnius in 1907, where he hoped to work for the sake of culture, to organize and strengthen the Lithuanian community. In the same year, a young 21-year-old girl, Sofija Kymantait\u0117, a budding writer, moved to Vilnius from Krakow in Poland. At the beginning of the year, during the first Lithuanian Art Exhibition, Sofija only watched the artist from afar, who was unaware at the time that the deep sea eyes of his future wife were focused on him. In the autumn, Sofija wrote a letter to \u010ciurlionis, inviting him to play music at the Vincas Kudirka\u2018s commemoration event in Vilnius. Konstantinas accepted her offer without hesitation. At the commemoration event, Ms. Kymantait\u0117 had the honor of finishing his oral part, after which \u010ciurlionis performed his own compositions. When he had finished playing, he found Sofija, sat down next to her, and said: „Your speech, madam, was very beautiful \u2013 I decided, after listening to you, that you would teach me Lithuanian”. As Sofija later testified in her memoirs, this encounter was a fateful one: „All right \u2013 I replied in a rather calm manner”.<\/p>

Thus was born a love story that unfolded over a period of just three and a half years, and which was suddenly interrupted but never ended.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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