Attributes of the homes of the inhabitants of Vilnius in seventeenth-eighteenth-century sources

ENThe furnishing of the homes of residents of the city of Vilnius, as well as that of urban dwellers of other Lithuanian cities, has actually not been researched sufficiently until the author of the article has conducted his scholarly inquiry. It has not been determined until now what kind of furniture the city's residents had, what the various pieces of their furniture looked like, and what materials they were made of. It has not been ascertained what colors were characteristic of them and whether they were always like that. It has not been elucidated what materials the furniture was upholstered in. It is not known whether the citizens of Vilnius used only locally produced furniture, or whether they also imported it from elsewhere. The purpose of individual pieces of furniture has not been investigated, nor the place of musical instruments in the furnishing of homes in the period under review. The purpose of this article is to give answers to these questions. The article is based on the study of archival sources and their detailed analysis. It provides substantial answers to the questions outlined above.