1257 French soldiers, 114 officers, including 6 colonels, were captured by the Russians. 5 Kaunas churches and monasteries, 9 brick and 45 wooden buildings burned down in the fires.
Major Arshukov of the Arzamask dragoon regiment was appointed as the first commandant of the city, and he was primarily tasked with cleaning up the city and the corpses in it. The latter problem was solved quite "successfully". The ground was deeply frozen at that time, not enough people were gathered for excavation work. About 15 thousand corpses of Napoleon's soldiers were buried under the Nemunas ice near the Vytautas Church. This was confirmed by a handful of different French buttons, found in 1981 by Schoolchildren on the banks of the Nemunas near the Vytautas Church. Attempts were also made to "bury" corpses in this way in Vilnius, but the authorities reacted in time and banned this type of burial Therefore, in the central part of Kaunas and its old town, no French burial places have been found...
1930 The Vytautas Great Bridge was given its name by Kaunas mayor Jonas Vileišis.
Following the partition of Lithuania in 1795, the territory, including Užnemune, was given to Prussia, then to the Duchy of Warsaw, and finally to the Kingdom of Poland inside Russia. Because it was part of the Russian Empire's Northwestern region, laws and calendars differed from those in Kaunas on the other side of the Nemunas. The Aleksotas Bridge was the world's longest, taking as long as 13 days to cross due to the old calendar's lag behind the new.
In 1941 During the June uprising, a detachment of around 250 partisans, one of the largest in Kaunas, was active in Aleksotas. During WWII, a "stadium" camp was established near the Aleksotas airfield. Following the war, 9155 dead POWs from this camp were discovered in 19 graves near the Aleksotas bridge. That is where all of the trouble in this area originates. The murdered victims' ghosts summon them.
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