Background
Pšibiliauskienė was born to an impractical painter Nikodem Iwanowski of Polish–Lithuanian nobility stock.
Pšibiliauskienė was born to an impractical painter Nikodem Iwanowski of Polish–Lithuanian nobility stock.
Pšibiliauskienė did not have formal education and self-educated reading various sentimental novels by Polish authors. In 1903, with two small children, Pšibiliauskienė moved out to Vilnius. She took random jobs as bookstore saleswoman, seamstress, pharmacy assistant, but still barely managed to avoid poverty.
In 1914 she moved to Kaunas, where she fell ill with tuberculosis.
She then returned to her childhood home in Paragiai, where she died in 1926. Since 1966 a museum is established in her former farmstead.
In 1993 a monument to the sisters was erected in Vilnius (sculptor Dalia Matulaitė, architects Jūras Balkevičius and Rimantas Buivydas).
