Stanislovas Kuzma at his studio in Vilnius design monument PIETA details, 1994
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ANTAKALNIO CEMETERY
It is situated in a hilly pine grove to the northeast of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Vilnius, Lithuania
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Established in 1809, later it was greatly expanded. Today the cemetery has become a pantheon of the Republic of Lithuania: there rest the independence fighters killed on January 13th 1991 at the Television Tower, and border guards killed in Medininkai on July 31st 1991. At their graves a monument Pieta, 1995 has been erected
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