Count Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (1814, Lahojsk

Lahojsk

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 – 1874) was a Polish–Lithuanian noble, archaeologist and historian from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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, then part of the Russian Empire

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. He was noted as the first archaeologist with academic and systematical approach to studies of in the Belarus

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ian, Lithuania

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n, Latvia

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n and Estonia

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n lands, and had a great influence on the upcoming generations of archaeologists.

Eustachy was a brother of historian Konstanty Tyszkiewicz

Konstanty Tyszkiewicz

Konstanty Tyszkiewicz was a Polish-Lithuanian noble, archaeologist and ethnographer. He studied the history of Lithuania and Belarus. Brother of Eustachy Tyszkiewicz....

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In 1855 he founded the Archaeological Commission in Vilnius

Vilnius

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 (Vilna). In 1858 he also founded the Museum of Antiquities (Muzeum Starożytności) there. In 1865, after Governor Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov

Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov

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 transferred most valuable parts of collection to Moscow

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 and closed the commission, Eustachy went to Biržai

Biržai

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 and spent most of his time there. He published a study on history of Biržai in 1869. Tyszkiewicz died in Vilnius, and is buried in Rasos cemetery

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Remaining parts of the museum became the basis of the National Museum of Lithuania

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