Lithuania and Italy relationships in 1922– 1940 years SUMMARY Nazi movement gained in popularity not only in Italy, but it became popular in other countries. Were Nazi cultural ideas interesting and near to Lithuania? For the attainment of answering to this question, I reached to find out and evaluate Nazi Italy and Lithuanian cultural life spread in Lithuanian and Italian societies. The subject of my work – Italian and Lithuanian cultural life. Work purpose – reach to find out and evaluate Nazi Italy and Lithuanian cultural propaganda spread in Lithuanian and Italian societies. I referred sparse historiography material, which established Italian cultural life features during writing this work. Furthermore I used two source groups. 1) Archival, manuscript material; 2) periodicals of the days. I put in to work descriptive, material analyzes-synthesis, comparative and statistics method, which let systematize and summing-up data analysis. Research and material analysis let make these conclusions: 1. Lithuanian international recognition determined relations with Italy. Italy and Lithuania had not only political but also miscellaneous cultural, artistic relations. They were very active in the thirties. 2. Interest in not only political but also cultural Lithuanian problems determined that in third-fourth decade of XX century Italian books were printed about Lithuanian art, memoirs about Balts language, Lithuanian geography, and also comprehensive information about Lithuania in... [to full text]