The Press Recovery, Language and Book day in Lithuania on 7 May marks the 1904 lift of the ban on printing books in Lithuanian language in the Latin alphabet that was imposed in the Russian empire in 1864 as a response to the 1863 uprising. The period of the ban on Lithuanian print coincides with the period of national awakening, when the first newspapers in Lithuanian appeared and the vernacular intelligentsia formed. The ban is widely remembered by commemorating book smugglers (knygnešiai) - most famous of them being Jurgis Bielinis - who smuggled books and newspapers mostly from East Prussia (Koenigsberg).