Povilas Višinskis was a Lithuania

Lithuania

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n writer, journalist, theatre director, and politician. His pen name

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s include A. – s, Blinda, P – V, P. A., Apaštalas, P. Šiaulietis. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Democratic Party

Lithuanian Democratic Party

Lithuanian Democratic Party or LDP , established on October 17, 1902, was the second-oldest political party in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire. It published newspapers Lietuvos ūkininkas and Lietuvos žinios . During World War I, the democratic party split into several other parties and...

. He contributed and edited various Lithuanian periodicals, most notably Varpas

Varpas

Varpas was a monthly Lithuanian-language newspaper published during the Lithuanian press ban from January 1889 to December 1905...

, Vilniaus žinios

Vilniaus žinios

Vilniaus žinios was a short-lived newspaper published in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was the first legal Lithuanian-language daily newspaper to appear after the Lithuanian press ban was lifted on May 7, 1904.-History:...

, and Lietuvos ūkininkas. He is also remembered as a mentor of literary talent. He discovered Žemaitė

Žemaite

Žemaitė - a pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė; in Bukantė near Plungė — 7 December 1921 in Marijampolė) was a Lithuanian writer. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival...

 and advised to Lazdynų Pelėda

Lazdynų Pelėda

Lazdynų Pelėda was the common pen name of two Lithuanian sisters writers:* Sofija Ivanauskaitė-Pšibiliauskienė * Marija Ivanauskaitė-Lastauskienė...

, Šatrijos Ragana

Šatrijos Ragana

Šatrijos Ragana was a pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė , a Lithuanian humanist and romantic writer and educator...

, Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė

Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė

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, Jonas Biliūnas

Jonas Biliunas

Jonas Biliūnas was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and a significant contributor to the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Biography:...

, Jonas Krikščiūnas. Višinskis also directed and played the main role in the first Lithuanian-language play Amerika pirtyje (America in a Bathhouse) in 1899. When advertisements for another play printed in Lithuanian using Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

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 were confiscated by police as violating the Lithuanian press ban

Lithuanian press ban

The Lithuanian press ban was a ban on all Lithuanian language publications printed in the Latin alphabet within the Russian Empire, which controlled Lithuania at the time. Lithuanian-language publications that used the Cyrillic alphabet were allowed and even encouraged...

, Višinskis sued and obtained a favorable judgment from the Supreme Court of Appeals in 1903. This lawsuit helped to end the ban in 1904.