Eerily beautiful cemetery we happened upon during our wanderings. Full of graves from about 1915-1950. Seemed to be hidden here to allow Lithuanians to bury their dead, be they soldiers, civilians, even new-borns during the many battles and the early Soviet occupation era. Heartbreaking to see the tiny little graves and to notice dates that only show a life of a few years, or like the photo below, a birth and death on the same day. Like the Hill of Crosses, the Soviets would try to destroy all memorials like this. Fortunately this seems to have survived largely unscathed.
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