Stasė Vaineikienė

Stasė Vaineikienė Paulauskaitė (31 March 1884 – 12 January 1946) was a Lithuanian writer and activist.

Born to a family of petty Lithuanian nobles, Vaineikienė married physician and activist Liudas Vaineikis. Together, they organized the smuggling of banned Lithuanian publications for which Vaineikis was sentenced to internal exile. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, she helped smuggling social democratic press. During World War I, she lived in Central Asia. Upon her return to Lithuania, she settled in Palanga and became active in city's life. She worked on reestablishing the Palanga Gymnasium and improving the city's sanitation. She was elected to the first city council in 1932. After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in June 1940, she became mayor of Palanga, was elected to the People's Seimas, and became a member of the Supreme Court of the Lithuanian SSR.

She wrote three historical novels. Two novels about serfdom in Lithuania were published in 1937–1938 and republished in 1958–1959. The third novel has been lost. She also wrote three memoirs: about the life of Palanga (published in 1931), struggles in the Russian Empire (three volumes published in 1935–1936), and World War I and Russian Civil War in Central Asia (published in 2014; Russian and Uzbek translations in 2022).

Biography Russian Empire Vaineikienė was born on 31 March 1884 in in the present-day Kretinga District Municipality in a family of petty Lithuanian nobles.