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Gandinga Mound, Varkaliai Mounds of Gandinga Archaeological Complex (Plungė District, Nausodžio Municipality)

The Prince M. Ogiński Manor Orchestra, in which M. K. Čiurlionis played, often gave concerts in the mansions of Gandinga. Eleonora Ravickienė, a teacher and local ethnography expert, has vividly described this:

[…] For M. K. Čiurlionis, a young man of sensitive nature, it meant a lot to spend the night in this special and mysterious place, to listen to the rustle of oaks, summon up the fairy tales about an unfathomable woman, a devil-German. This locale was saturated with romance and mystery. Perchance it prompted strong impressions in his early youth. Perchance it generated the first seedlings conductive to his creative disposition. Perchance these memories led him to view the world as if it were a fairy tale…


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