Apie britus Lietuvoje, arba Williamo Henry’o Langhorne’o kelionė į Veprius
LTPublikuojamas šaltinis – škotų kunigo W. H. Langhorne’o prisiminimai apie XIX a. 5 deš. įvykusią jo kelionę į Lietuvą. Šis tekstas suteikia informacijos apie to meto Europos kelionių kultūrą ir keliavimo sąlygas Rusijos imperijoje. Jis praplečia žinias apie mažai tyrinėtus kultūrinius Didžiosios Britanijos ir Lietuvos ryšius, o kartu patikslina Lietuvos dvarų ir giminių istorijos duomenis.
ENThe article presents W. H. Langhorne’s reminiscences of his sojourn in Lithuania. The Reverend W. H. Langhorne was an amateur historian of the Catholic Church in Scotland and his native areas. In the second half of the 1840s, the author of memoirs came to Vepriai, the Bower Saint Clair family estate, to teach the sons of its owners. Then, the arrival of a Scotchman in Lithuanian provinces was unusual (a more distinct precedent being Scottish merchant settlers in Kėdainiai in the 17th century); however, in the Russian Empire, Scotchmen used to come comparatively often and some of them even went into business or joined the military service. Half a century later, W. H. Langhorne published the impressions of his youth in the Proceedings of the Anglo-Russian Literary Society (May–June–July, 1904). His text provides information about travelling conditions in the Russian Empire. It expands fragmentary knowledge about cultural relations between Great Britain and Lithuania and introduces some new data on the history of Lithuanian noble houses.
