Chistye Prudy, Kaliningrad Oblast

The place is located northwest of the Romincka Forest not far from the borders with Lithuania and Poland.

Tollmingkehmen was mentioned in written sources in the 14th century. In 1589, it became a center of a parish. Many famous people worked in the parish including Kristijonas Donelaitis (Christian Donalitius), the author of the first Lithuanian poem The Seasons. Donelaitis was a Lutheran pastor of the German and Lithuanian inhabitants of Tollmingkehmen in eastern Prussia for 37 years. He built a new church which is now reconstructed into his memorial museum.

Under Prussian rule, it belonged to the district of Goldap, in the administrative region of Gumbinnen in the province of East Prussia. It was an important cultural center in the Kingdom of Prussia's Lithuania Minor region and had a sizable Prussian Lithuanian minority until the early 19th century, which was assimilated by the German population. The last Prussian Lithuanians fled during the last months of World War II or were expelled with the other inhabitants of East Prussia after 1945. As a result of World War II, the area was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945 and it was given the Russian name Chistye Prudy.

• Memorial museum of Donelaitis