Description
The Bukontais are an old noble family that ruled the Bukančiai, Radvilaičiai and Danilaičiai manors in Žemaitia. 19th century In the middle of the 19th century, the representatives of this family moved to the Kegrii single-family house in the Viekšņii county at that time. in 1873 August 11 A son Dominykas was born to Adam and Agnieska Petrošiūta Bukonts, who lived here. After graduating from Šiauliai Gymnasium in 1893 - 1897 D. Bukont studied at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University, in 1900. graduated from the medical faculty of Kharkiv University and from 1901 worked as a doctor in Dusetos, where he actively joined social activities. in 1904 D. Bukontas was mobilized for the Russo-Japanese war, later released to the reserve and settled in Zarasai, where he was appointed head of the hospital. Here he awakened the national movement, in 1913. established the "Saulė" society, a Lithuanian library, urged residents to subscribe to Lithuanian newspapers, took care of the establishment of Lithuanian societies, collected folklore, works of folk art, and anthropologically studied 1000 Lithuanians from the Zarasai area. in 1914 when the war broke out again, D. Bukontas was mobilized again and served as a doctor in the Latvian rifle regiment. He returned to Zarasi only in 1918. and found this land desolate and plagued with disease. The doctor saw to it that a hospital was established in the city, initiated the establishment of the pro-gymnasium of the Zarasai "Saulė" society. D. Bukont saved hundreds of people when a typhus epidemic broke out in Zarasai region. Unfortunately, in 1919 January 19 he himself died from this disease, since there was no other doctor in the city at that time. in 1993 A monument with the inscription "Heart, mind and life / For the nation and the whole of mankind" was unveiled in Zarasai Sēlių Square in memory of D. Bukont, the luminary of the Zarasai region, and in 2018 In the historic house of D. Bukonto (now D. Bukonto str. 10), where the member of the Constituent Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, doctor Juozas Buzelis, later lived, an exposition presenting the educational activities of these persons was installed.
