ENSo far the knowledge about the studies of the prominent leader of the Lithuanian national revival Vincas Kudirka (1858-1899) has been limited to fragmentary reminiscences of his colleagues and to the case of the Polish ‘Proletariat’ Party in which he was a defendant The material of the Warsaw archives was used to get a more comprehensive picture about Kudirka’s studies at the faculties of history and philology (1881-82) and medicine (1882-89), his professors, the courses taken and examination results. More details were found about his difficult situation at the University in the period of 1885-1887, that is, between his short-term arrest in the ‘Proletariat’ case and the sentence confirmation by the tsar. Subsequently Kudirka was expelled from the University and shortly restored again. The article also presents some information on the sources providing his basic subsistence.