During this brief yet very important and difficult period of its existence, many famous personalities have been revealed. After the abolition of the serfdom, people from Lithuanian rural areas acquired real opportunities for studying and thus formed an important layer of intelligentsia among the Lithuanian people, which, whenever the occasion allowed, assumed responsibility for the development and fostering of their state. This idea at that time had other alternatives: the country could have become part or province of Poland, Soviet Russia, Germany, and therefore, the contribution of each person in this complicated project of the independent state was critical and decisive. In the medal these people are grouped by fields of activity. The reliefs of their faces and surnames allow to identify people who have assumed the leading roles during the difficult hours – state politicians, military leaders, scientists, poets, artists and other creators. Such presentation of our history, the idea is close to the Lithuanian album of 1930, and is not common nowadays, because we are more inclined to divide, question, doubt and even blacken, rather than being proud and embracing. To place side by side the restoration of the state of Lithuania with the accession to NATO and the European Union – is the idea of ​​commemorating this significant fact, which we are not yet fully aware of. Not only every detail, but the whole, is important for the artist as well.

Director of Kaunas Fortress Park