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00:00:00As we know from history, how the uprising ended, at first they didn't find
00:00:03important evidence of what he did, how things were, only later
00:00:07six years passed, until his wife, after childbirth, was with him in Palanga,
00:00:10he arrived, was arrested and taken to
00:00:13Siberia, he was taken along with his
00:00:17relative, Romer, the artist,
00:00:20he was his wife's sister's
00:00:24husband, so they were related, so they were taken to
00:00:28Siberia, as I mentioned, and... "Later, after a few years,
00:00:31together, a rare story happened to them, both wives came with
00:00:34children, there are countless written sources, those who
00:00:38were exiled to Siberia, there are three volumes of a diary written, when
00:00:42Belazoraitė followed Medardas Koncha, after two years she was only allowed
00:00:45to catch up with her husband and live there, that
00:00:49Medardas himself, as we call him, that Medardas, the most famous,
00:00:53he himself decided to start writing a diary in '90,
00:00:55such a wonderful time, when you have time
00:00:59for children..." but of course he was so laconic, but generally
00:01:03you get to know people better through that, through everything they used to do,
00:01:06what they did, with whom they communicated, for example, Baranauskas
00:01:10used to stay, well, we have a lot
00:01:13of information and therefore much more of our own. After
00:01:16seven years of exile, Medardas Konče returned to
00:01:20Lokinė manor. His son Medardas Ezekiel
00:01:23and Povilas Petras Julius also joined the
00:01:261863
00:01:29uprising. exile also didn't avoid him, so one of the sons
00:01:32after the uprising hid and fled to Paris, where he is
00:01:36buried in Monmartre cemetery, another son
00:01:39was captured, exiled to Siberia for a short time,
00:01:42somehow miraculously got permission to leave, but could not
00:01:46return here, so he went to Poland, where he
00:01:49worked for some time as a count's clerk, after the count
00:01:52died, he was an advisor to his son and
00:01:55married the count's daughter later,
00:01:59yes. "He became rich, received a considerable
00:02:02dowry, a large manor from the count and, if
00:02:05I remember correctly, about
00:02:08140,000 groschen, returned to
00:02:11Lithuania, he worked at the Bank of Lithuania in those
00:02:14days, received a considerable 4,000 silver
00:02:17salary and lived in the Tiškevičiai palace, where two strong men hold
00:02:21that balcony in Trakai street, so, having become rich, he later
00:02:24bought back, because the Šešolėliai manor was taken from the
00:02:27family after the uprisings, he..." later bought back the Šešolėliai manor and built the modern English
00:02:31style manor, which we now know, and another
00:02:34son participated less in the uprising, you know, there were many
00:02:38children, so he was more involved in
00:02:40agricultural activities, so he actually managed this whole
00:02:44property, the heir of Lokinė, Pranciškus Mykolas Juozepas Konča
00:02:48expanded the family's estates, you see the huge barn, so how is it now with those
00:02:52lands, generally they mainly managed about
00:02:552,500 hectares, which is actually a lot, because usually... how much
00:02:58do you have about 500 hectares 600 and it is already considered a large
00:03:01manor, but Pranciškus, his
00:03:05son, who managed this manor until the First World War and
00:03:08a little after it, he died in '27,
00:03:11so around 1911
00:03:13he started buying more lands, so he bought back the manors that had been taken
00:03:17before, and all the other manors around,
00:03:21so he expanded the whole farm to 3600
00:03:25hectares, in his father's diary it is written that
00:03:28"we pour cast iron like in Chicago, my Pranciškus
00:03:31created such a factory," so now that village is gone, but right here, a few
00:03:35kilometers away, according to the old maps, there was a cast iron
00:03:38foundry, there are photos of a carriage with four
00:03:42horses standing, he used to climb onto the barn roof and fix the
00:03:45shingles, being 80-something
00:03:48years old, because he didn't trust others, it had to
00:03:52be nailed down exactly as needed, the manor's
00:03:56prosperity was hindered by the First World War, the estates
00:04:00were cut back during the interwar period due to the land reform, the First
00:04:03World War cost him very dearly, after
00:04:06the First World War, roughly they were left with 500
00:04:10hectares, everything was taken away, and then during the land reform they
00:04:13were left, as everyone was, with the manor and 80
00:04:16hectares, but since at that moment they were engaged in very advanced
00:04:20farming, they were later given back 160
00:04:23hectares for each
00:04:25hello. Well, how many child, because when he died in '27, two boys and
00:04:28their mother remained, probably one of the last photos, Ludvika
00:04:32Gružauskaitė Končienė, posing by the wooden ornate
00:04:36Lokinė manor, the Soviet occupation struck,
00:04:38the landlady and her two young sons, Pranciškus Mikalojus
00:04:42and Marionas Motiejus, were repressed. The manor
00:04:45was nationalized, valuables were lost, the archive
00:04:49was destroyed. The Končios brothers later joined the
00:04:52Polish underground resistance, Marionas
00:04:54Končio was killed. Just recently his brother's remains were found,
00:04:58and the other brother was arrested, taken to a labor camp
00:05:02near Moscow, from which he escaped, by the way,
00:05:06changed his surname, because there was a bit of persecution and... and
00:05:09lives in Gdansk. During the Soviet era, the nationalized
00:05:13manor homestead was transferred to the Siesikai
00:05:16collective farm. After the war, a
00:05:19collective farm office was established. We were lucky, it was a huge collective farm, though a bit
00:05:23smaller. So many families were moved into
00:05:26the outbuilding, about eight apartments were divided, made, a
00:05:30cinema, laundry, shop operated, well, you know, there was a lack of space, everyone
00:05:34was moved in, the manor house survived until about
00:05:371950, during which time, it's not clear when, between
00:05:411944 and 1950, locals brewed moonshine,
00:05:44colloquially speaking, they burned down the manor, so it didn't survive, only a few
00:05:48cellars of the manor remained, during the Soviet era, the name of the village
00:05:51and the manor was also changed, actually this is the Lukinis manor,
00:05:54not Lokinė, Lokinė appeared here so miraculously around 1970,
00:05:58for some reason, during the collective farm times, they decided to change
00:06:02the name, actually it was always known as Lukinė and according
00:06:05to historical sources, the origin of the
00:06:08name is not entirely clear. The Koncha family coat of arms has hands that look like a bow,
00:06:12so that might be one of them, but I think that's less likely, because
00:06:16the name is older than when the Koncha family settled here, there's a
00:06:20Luknė, a marsh flower, on the other side, we have a
00:06:23hillfort and those marsh flowers grow there, and there's also
00:06:27another thing, since here it's a curve, right behind me,
00:06:31this is one of the old main roads, at this manor, the road turns
00:06:34when driving from Siesikai, so from Polish it means something like a
00:06:38corner, for many years the Lokinė manor was officially
00:06:42declared ownerless property, a few years ago
00:06:45an unexpected meeting with Konča's descendant,
00:06:48Elžbieta Konča, took place.
00:06:52It took six years, they had to publish messages
00:06:55in newspapers and all these things, and it was said
00:06:59that they refused, because there was no land, but when
00:07:03that heiress arrived, of course she's not the only one of
00:07:05the sisters, so one said, there aren't 160
00:07:08hectares here, so it's not needed, your one.
00:07:12The one who delves most into the family history and cares the most, she said,
00:07:16we, she lives in Florida now and also half
00:07:20a quarter of a foot in Gdansk, she says, we
00:07:23wouldn't be able to drive there anyway, and indeed very little was preserved here,
00:07:27but what was stranger, was that she simply didn't check what was happening
00:07:31with this manor, solely because she was afraid that,
00:07:34as she said, a farm would be built, that
00:07:38a parking lot would be made or apartment buildings or something
00:07:42else. She didn't know what, because, well, you automatically don't check if it's
00:07:45heritage at all and how all this happens, so she simply
00:07:49didn't check for a very long time. One of the family's pains
00:07:53was that the uncle was simply buried in a common
00:07:56grave and no one knew where the uncle's remains were,
00:08:00and precisely about two or three years ago (I'm afraid to lie about the exact number of years),
00:08:04an institute that searches for remains called and said,
00:08:08"We probably found your uncle and we need to do DNA
00:08:11tests." In short, just to really confirm it, and that was the first moment
00:08:15when she thought, "Maybe it's worth taking a look," because, after all,
00:08:18it stirs up a lot of emotions, and then she
00:08:21found us through social networks, found us,
00:08:24read everything, and at that point it started to get strange, when you see
00:08:28that like, like and exactly with the same surname, and then she
00:08:32contacted us, our first conversation probably
00:08:35lasted about two hours, ah, so probably
00:08:38the husband was the only one who didn't cry, because both, well, really a lot, very different.
00:08:42You start looking at that place differently when you see a real person,
00:08:46you don't just read about them, well, it's not a novel, she
00:08:49was here for the second time and
00:08:52at least says that she considers us also part of the extended family, actually
00:08:56such a very sweet
00:08:59saying, after historical losses,
00:09:03it will be necessary to revive not only buildings, but also history,
00:09:07detailed and interesting research awaits, as a rich
00:09:10legacy of manor owners' Konchas' diaries, other written
00:09:14sources, and iconographic heritage has survived. The first
00:09:17building they tried to restore, a small cart house,
00:09:21the only remaining structure of the former stables. One of the surviving manor
00:09:25buildings, the mighty barn, is also being revived.
00:09:29Initially, it was necessary to remove the danger posed by the barn,
00:09:33fix the collapsed roof, and the fallen
00:09:36walls. So, here we are at the main barn
00:09:40doors, so what do we have from?
00:09:42a classicist style building, which has changed little,
00:09:46so we are glad that it has a lot of authenticity, so one of them is these
00:09:49original Koncha-era doors with a still working original
00:09:53lock, it is protected, it is listed in the register of valuables next to this building,
00:09:57but the doors themselves are well preserved, they are only waiting
00:10:00for restoration, so here we are now inside the
00:10:04barn, what was it like when we
00:10:07came here, it was full of piles of garbage, all sorts of...
00:10:10various partitions were made of shelves, well, to store as much as possible,
00:10:14which affected the structural integrity of the barn itself, here
00:10:17in the corner you can see in all places where the
00:10:21ceiling beams go, there are purely structural
00:10:24cracks, because the building itself does
00:10:28not have a concrete ring, which we do
00:10:31over time, a wooden beam was embedded, which over time
00:10:34still, the building is over 200 years old, over time it
00:10:38rotted and the support, the load is not distributed nicely
00:10:42along the entire wall and it turned out that precisely at the masonry places where
00:10:45the beam is, cracks appeared,
00:10:48and why this happened,
00:10:52there was a very good, good summer, it was very overloaded with
00:10:56grain and during the collective farm times, where to put it, they tried to cram everything into the building, so
00:10:59imagine, here it was filled with 2
00:11:02meters of grain, another additional shelf-like
00:11:06floor was made, and then the entire attic was covered with a meter of grain,
00:11:08it stood, settled, and structural
00:11:12cracks appeared, which a little bit twisted the
00:11:15building itself, so we see these
00:11:19columns, they were shifted
00:11:22and everything here was... the roof ridge
00:11:26was also straight, but the attic support in the middle had collapsed,
00:11:30so it had to be a little bit propped up, put back in place so that the building
00:11:34wouldn't settle further. Now we are in the barn's
00:11:37attic, the construction itself, as you can see, everywhere
00:11:40wooden pegs are used, so that shows that nothing
00:11:44was rebuilt here during the Soviet era, and next to it we have a lifting
00:11:47mechanism, the floors have been changed, so the opening is gone, but
00:11:51the mechanism itself remains, so we have a pulley
00:11:54made of wood. slightly chipped from
00:11:57use, about 400 square meters,
00:12:00the barn was built during Koncha's time. Koncha, when
00:12:04he bought this whole area, completely rebuilt everything, there are
00:12:07speculations, it's not fully clear yet,
00:12:09that the current barn stood on the site of the Grotus and
00:12:13Dumatos Acicki era manor, as you can see, there
00:12:16are window openings, window openings are formed large like a
00:12:20manor, they were only later bricked up, there is no brick
00:12:23bond, so this idea can also be speculated,
00:12:26but maybe it could be
00:12:29so, because Elžbieta also told us that at first they built a stone
00:12:33palace, they wanted a stone one, but after living in a stone building they realized that they
00:12:37didn't want a stone one, because imagine winters,
00:12:40those stone walls were so cold that they still
00:12:43got cold and the maids scraped ice from the windows and
00:12:47the walls were not enough just with tiles, as we don't have such low ones now,
00:12:51so they changed their mind and
00:12:54it seems that this could fit, that
00:12:57the barn now stands in the place of the old manor and after changing it, they built
00:13:01wooden manor houses in the middle between the outbuilding and the
00:13:04barn. While tidying the barn, unexpected cellars
00:13:07were found, older than the building itself. Since
00:13:10there wasn't much in the documents, generally, no serious historical
00:13:13research, how things were, that those bags were bought. We noticed
00:13:17that there were collapses here, indicating a
00:13:20cellar. There are no entrances to the cellar, everything is covered,
00:13:24filled in. Covered with trash, nothing was visible, so we looked through
00:13:27one opening and saw that the smallest friend would fit there, so we lowered
00:13:31that friend by his hands, he slid through piles of trash, found the cellar, and
00:13:34we shouted, "So what did you find there?" He was silent,
00:13:38silent, but "you know, a mummy," so in that cellar lives a mummified cat,
00:13:42so later we saw, because
00:13:44during Soviet times, it turned out that since there was thick concrete, local people started stealing grain,
00:13:48they drilled holes in the floor and put it into bags, so they had simply
00:13:51placed a concrete block in that spot, when we were tidying up, we
00:13:55removed it, the cellar itself was also exactly the same,
00:13:59it was full of bottles, slate and
00:14:02all sorts of other things, I don't know, we probably removed at least 10
00:14:06cubic meters. So here we are
00:14:10in the barn's cellar,
00:14:12we have two such surviving rooms, as I mentioned before,
00:14:16their structures do not match the ground floor floors,
00:14:19so there is a guess that this is older, as
00:14:22in the found documents, when
00:14:26the Sasickiai sold to Grotusas, the list states
00:14:30that there was a manor house, old
00:14:33with cheese cellars, so there is a
00:14:37suspicion that these are those cheese cellars, because when the Koncha
00:14:40family acquired the manor, they completely, completely
00:14:42rebuilt everything, new palace, new barn,
00:14:46but the cellars are older, we are not sure how old these cellars
00:14:49are, but one of the older pieces of evidence is, as you can see,
00:14:53the plaster is mixed with lime bubbles remaining, meaning the lime
00:14:57was coarser and not all the lime dissolved. The condition
00:15:00of the arches themselves, we are very happy that we don't need to do anything with them,
00:15:04because the arches are not collapsed,
00:15:07not cracked, so the condition of the cellars is really good, only the back walls
00:15:11were washed out and it was full, full of garbage here, so the longest
00:15:15and most tedious job was to carry out all this garbage, as
00:15:18they say, we also have a preserved
00:15:21original doorframe, maybe we just need to fit some doors sometime,
00:15:25so that the cellar would be colder, what else can we say
00:15:28about the cellars, there is a ventilation
00:15:31system, every few bricks there is a gap left and
00:15:35behind that gap there is clay. compacted earth, so that it can
00:15:39ventilate, so we have about
00:15:4210 such gaps in each of the cellars, through
00:15:46which natural ventilation takes place,
00:15:49there are also a few niches remaining for putting
00:15:52things, a candle perhaps and and and
00:15:55others, and we have that one entrance from the outside
00:15:59via steps and an arched entrance
00:16:03and a passage to another cellar, where there are stairs
00:16:05for exiting to the first
00:16:08floor of the barn. So here we are
00:16:12in the second room of the barn's cellar,
00:16:16as we suspect, this is the cheese dairy, so it is an
00:16:20identical room, their area is very similar, there
00:16:24was also a ventilation opening to the outside in this place, as I mentioned, additional
00:16:27gaps are also made between the bricks, but what
00:16:31we have are those beautiful stairs that lead to the first
00:16:35floor of the building, so because... everything was closed there,
00:16:38so again we speculate with the idea that
00:16:41these are the old Grotus era manor cellars,
00:16:45so the stairs are curved, there are several
00:16:48niches that are for putting candles or
00:16:51small items, and they end up to a meter from the top, because there
00:16:55the floor structures of the new barn begin, structural
00:16:59beams, foundation foundation blocks laid and
00:17:02and and similar things, what else with those little doors, that's also
00:17:06visible. in those notches, it seems that the steps were
00:17:09wooden, unfortunately we didn't find any remaining, they were probably
00:17:13taken out with the turn, and here is such an interesting bricked corner,
00:17:16here it is, so the guess is that this was probably part of the shaft and
00:17:20this area was closed with wooden doors.
00:17:23Fragments of the Lokinė manor homestead were registered
00:17:26in the cultural heritage register back in
00:17:301992.
00:17:32Worn out by historical misfortunes, the manor buildings
00:17:36and the surviving park alleys awaited new caring
00:17:40owners, now I enrolled in doctoral studies this year,
00:17:44I will be a doctoral student, from autumn, because this
00:17:47place changed a lot, a lot of everything, and this is not about any
00:17:51personal relationships or similar, but very much so, this
00:17:55will be my second degree related to the manor, because I finished my master's
00:17:59last year specifically on fermented beverages, because
00:18:02Lithuania needs that diploma,
00:18:05and now somehow I decided... that it's really great to study and
00:18:09there are many scientists in the family history, I decided
00:18:13to try applying for environmental engineering
00:18:17and specifically the application of ecosystems in heritage areas, I really
00:18:20wanted to activate this place through science and
00:18:24learn even more broadly, even more, what people do, how
00:18:27it's possible and what science says can be done with such
00:18:30buildings, how to activate them,
00:18:33preserve them specifically through that other environmental prism, oh my.
00:18:37My dream is a park and that's more of a decorative park, but
00:18:41a park needs countless hands, countless,
00:18:45oh, and during your show, you know, I also heard a very good saying,
00:18:48that it usually took more than one generation to build a manor, so
00:18:52reviving it will usually take more than
00:18:53one. Lokinė Manor will be
00:18:57revived, even if it might take more than one
00:19:01generation.
00:19:25What do an elegant music genius and
00:19:29a tough guy from the streets of New York have in common, until
00:19:32fate puts them in one car,
00:19:35awarded three Oscars. A sensitive and comical
00:19:39film that opens up the painful history
00:19:42of racial segregation in America. The Green
00:19:45Book. Today
00:19:48at 9:50 PM on LRT
00:19:51television.
00:19:57Well, there you go, and an ultimatum was given,
00:19:59either me or the bees. Now serious
00:20:02things await, right? Cleaning. He thinks I can't. I can perform
00:20:06Beethoven there. Egidijus Supavičius. What
00:20:10beauty.
00:20:11Today at
00:20:145 PM on LRT
00:20:16television. In History Detectives
00:20:19we will remember how the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union was restored. Cases
00:20:23were initiated and on some
00:20:26files it was written in red pencil: "liquidate." And we ask, why did Sąjūdis become a powerful
00:20:30movement in a short time? This was the first
00:20:33spark, because the question is always whether there should be that first one
00:20:36or not, who dares to do something. History Detectives
00:20:40tonight.