Lietuvos atstovai pirmoje Rusijos valstybės dūmoje
Lithuania’s Representatives in the First State Duma of Russia

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the Lithuania’s representatives of the Duma in 1906. Among Duma’s 500 representatives, the Lithuanian provinces had the right to elect 22 representatives to the Duma, the national distribution being as follows: 10 Lithuanians, 5 Poles, 2 Russians, 3 Jews, and 2 Byelorussians. Working in different commissions and subcommissions, participating in legislative activities and expressing their opinion in the state Duma, Lithuania’s representatives raised issues relevant to Lithuanians and other national minorities within the Russian empire, such as cultural autonomy, justice, law and order, democratic freedoms and land reform. Moreover, the participation of Lithuania’s representatives in the Duma strengthened their own political maturity as well as served national interests, i.e. propagated Lithuania’s aims among other nations under the imperial subjugation, acquainted them with Lithuania’s history and the aspirations of its people.

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