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“It once belonged to N. Silvanavičius, but it was private property and the house was not included in the list of cultural heritage property values,” Bijton Mayor Nijolė Dirginčienė told BNS on Tuesday.
“The house looked beautiful, a wooden building with carvings and so on, but it was inhabited,” he said.
Currently, the house was inhabited by a person who was assisted by the municipality.
“He is housed, they gave him a place in the Day Center, they donated clothes and we take care of the food,” said the resort manager.
According to her, the villa that belonged to N. Silvanavičius in the past could have been lit by a messy fireplace.
According to data from the Fire and Rescue Department, the house fire on N. Silvanavičiaus Street broke out on Sunday at around 10:30 pm.
Upon the arrival of firefighters, a two-story wooden building with an attic caught fire. The fire burned and the roof collapsed. The interior of the house and the wood it contained, various scrap wood and other household items were burned.
N. Silvanavičius was born in 1834 in the town of Cincevičiai, Vilnius county. He studied painting and mosaics at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts and later worked there.
In 1864-66 N. Silvanavičius lived in Vilnius, and from 1901 – in Birštonas, later – in Prienai.
His works belong to the Lithuanian and Belarusian art museums and the St. Petersburg Museum.
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