First Lithuanian-Muscovite War (1368-1372). The Rise of Moscow - animated DOCUMENTARY

The Lithuanian-Muscovite War was the result of the confrontation between the Moscow and Tver principalities for the label of the Great Reign of Vladimir and led to the recognition of the leadership of Moscow by all north-eastern Russian principalities.

[@lukavaldec4706]

Wenn will you make a about the Yugoslav wars

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

There were various reasons for the decline of the Lithuanian Empire and one of the reasons were in 1368-1372 the unsuccessful 3 raids against the Principality of Moscow with the support of the Principality of Tver, chief rival of Moscow. All Lithuanian attempts to conquer Moscow were repelled and in the end Lithuania was even defeated at Lyubutsk in 1372 by Principality of Moscow. After the failed attempts to conquer Moscow and the defeat in the battle a stalemate ensued and Lithuania was forced to agree to the Treaty of Lyubutsk with the Principality of Moscow. A peace treaty was agreed and Lithuanians agreed to cease their aid to Tver, which was later defeated in 1375 by the Principality of Moscow. So the raids against Moscow consumed many resources which weakened Lithuania additionally, but did not achieve any significant results. The long war that has been going on since 1340 against Poland for the Ruthenian territories, also weakened Lithuania additionally! The civil war that broke out in 1381 and lasted until 1384 further weakened Lithuania. In this civil war Lithuanian Samogitia rebelled against the Grand Duke of Lithuania, mind you, with the support of the Teutonic Order that was actually the arch-enemy of the Lithuanians. Presumably the people of Samogitia thought that an alliance with the Teutonic Order would then stop the order's raids from which the Grand Duke of Lithuania was unable to protect them. Because there was actually a permanent war of the Teutonic Order against pagan Lithuania. So also during this period of decline, the Teutonic Order defeated Lithuania in the Battle of Rudau in 1370. In this battle, almost the entire Lithuanian army was destroyed, with comparatively low losses for the order. At the same time, the fortress of Kaunas was destroyed by the Order which was the first brick castle built by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the wooden fortresses of Veliuona and Pieštvė were also burned down which opened Lithuania again to Teutonic raids. Because these fortresses were built to protect against the Teutonic raids. But these raids against pagan Lithuania which were called the Lithuanian Crusades by the Order was actually Lithuania's main problem! Until then, there had been these very bloody crusades of the Order against the Lithuanians for two centuries! The Teutonic knights harmlessly called these raids "Reisen" translated journeys. Almost 300 journey raids to lands of Grand Duchy of Lithuania can be verified in the 14th century using sources. The so-called journey raids were genocidal massacres of the civilian population with sacking, looting, and pillaging. These journey raids were also used for slave hunting and cattle were also robbed! It was precisely around that time that through these raids the entire swath of land became a scarcely-inhabited territory. So it is not surprising that in the Nazi era in the 30's and 40's this genocidal behavior of the Order was a role model. In any case, it is amazing that despite these constant raids that affected quite large areas, Lithuania was still able to grow into an empire. In any case, the protective fortresses were destroyed and the raids increased again, which further weakened Lithuania in this difficult time. At that time, the Teutonic Order was preparing to attack Lithuania decisively. The Order also threatened Poland with megalomania. Lithuania proposed Poland to end the war and fight the Order together. Poland agreed to fight together against the Teutonic Order but Poland had an additional suggestion. Since the Teutonic Order justified the constant attacks against Lithuania as crusades against pagans, Lithuania should convert to Christianity through a personal union with Christian Poland and thus deprive the order of the pretext for the raids. The Lithuanians agreed to the Polish proposal and entered into a personal union with Poland in 1385, which was called the Union of Krewo! According to the Treaty of Union, the Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila was to convert to Christianity and marry the Queen of Poland, becoming the Polish king and ruling both Lithuania and Poland. So with this union of Krewo became the Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila Polish king and in the process he was Polonized and therefore also called himself in Polish Władysław II Jagiełło and also lived in the Polish capital. With that union with Poland, Lithuania officially became Christian and the Polonization of Lithuania, which had begun long before with the Polish Christianization campaign of Lithuania, was continued! So Jogaila, who became the Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło, was certainly not the first Lithuanian to be Polonized. Because before him there were a lot of Polonized Lithuanians and after him many, many, many more would be Polonized. This very increased Polonization of the Lithuanians occurred because, through this union, Poland had the opportunity to take over Lithuania, which Poland also took advantage of and took over Lithuania. However the Teutonic Oder, in its megalomania, then also attacked Poland which was already equally strong before but became a superior empire through its union with Lithuania. Also Teutonic aggression against Lithuanian territories did not stop although Lithuania became Christian. The megalomaniacal Teutonic Order was not aware that Poland had become an empire thanks to the additional Lithuanian forces/territories and therefore dared to go to war against Poland. With reinforcements from Lithuanian troops, Poland was able to build a stronger army and defeat the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. By the way, the order was not defeated after this great battle of 1410, what many believe. Poland had to win various other battles before the order became a vassal of the Polish Empire. So the decisive wars of the Polish Empire against the Teutonic Order were the wars of 1431-1435 and 1454-1466 in which the Order was finally defeated. In these wars the Polish Empire was supported not only by Lithuanian auxiliary troops but also by auxiliary troops of vassals such as the Duchy of Stolp, Prussian Confederation and Principality of Moldavia whereby mercenary were also used like Hussite mercenaries. In any case, the Polish Empire also won battles against the Teutonic Order without any support from auxiliary troops, such as the Battle of Świecino in 1462. At least, the wars against the Teutonic Order ended with the order becoming a vassal of the Polish Empire. This also had the consequence that the Lithuanian areas of the Polish Empire were finally safe from raids by the Order. And further genocides by these Barbarians were prevented by the victory of the newly established Polish Empire. The Lithuanians were obviously satisfied with the Polish dominance, which also meant that the order was pacified. In any case, a large part of the Lithuanians were completely voluntarily Polonized over time, so that the previous Lithuanian capital Vilnius also became the Polish city of Wilno where mainly Polish was spoken and where in the end only 4% Lithuanians lived. So the historical reality was that Lithuania was almost completely Polonized, and the reason for that was that the Poles were the absolutely dominant ethnic group in the Polish Empire.

[@MIXer_federation100]

Приветствую!)

[@mutteringmale]

gave a down button for the annoying begging bell ringing.

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

Russia has defeated Lithuania for 6 straight centuries starting from 14th century all the way to 20th century 🇷🇺 💪

[@aquadice6001]

Sure bud😂 14th-15th century Lithuania was beating Moscow duchy up, 16th-18th Poland and Lithuania was literally toying with Russia, it was nothing compared, 19th century I can agree, in 20th century Lithuania kept beating Russia with such size and army disadvantage like 1918-1920 and 1990-1991

[@JDDC-tq7qm]

@@aquadice6001 bro Lithuania literally failed to capture Moscow plus Lithuania lost Tver to Russia and don't forget Lithuania was a colony of Russia same with Poland how many times has Russia capture Vilnus and Warsaw the whole Poland and Lithuania was under Russia control Lithuania is so scared of Russia that it had to run to nato arms lol Russia owns Lithuania and Poland there is no competition 😂

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

This is complete nonsense of 6 straight centuries. When Poland took over Lithuania and created the Polish Empire, the Polish Empire protected Lithuania and often defeated Russia. The Polish Empire even briefly conquered Moscow and the son of the Polish king became the Russian tsar. But in the end the Russians won and took over most of the Polish territories.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@aquadice6001 Your claims completely contradict historical reality. From the union with Poland of 1385 what was the takeover of Lithuania by Poland and which was the foundation of the Polish Empire, Lithuania was completely dominated by Poland. So those were the victories of the Polish Empire that you are mentioning. Furthermore, it is also nonsense that Russia supposedly lost in the 18th century. In the 18th century, Poland lost its status as an empire and slowly collapsed why Poland was no longer able to win wars against Russia.

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

@@aquadice6001 Your other claims are also nonsense. There was no Russia in 1918-1920, it was the Bolsheviks! Ridiculous, as if Lithuania with its tiny army was capable of winning wars in the 20th century. Lithuania was not taken over by the Bolsheviks in 1920 because Poland won the war against the Bolsheviks in 1921! If the Bolsheviks had defeated Poland, they would have occupied all three Baltic states including Lithuania. But the Polish victory prevented that! By the way, in 1990-1991 there was no Russia, it was the Soviet Union and there was no war against the Soviet Union that the Lithuanians could have won. The Soviet Union collapsed and the Lithuanians took advantage of it and founded the Lithuanian state.

[@adamradziwill]

edit: First Grand Lithuanian ( Belarusian) -Muscovite War

[@domasabrom2994]

Yeah belarusian which is now russian province, nice joke xd

[@GreatPolishWingedHussars]

If anything then Lithuanian-Ruthenian. Because back then there were no Belarusians at all but the Ruthenians who were the ancestors of the Belarusians and Ukrainians. The Belarusians and Ukrainians then developed from the East Slavic Ruthenians in later times. That was strange anyway with the Lithuanians who, although they conquered the Ruthenian territories, actually became strongly Ruthenian as a result. So before Lithuania was taken over by Poland Lithuanian nobles primarily used the Ruthenian language! Because of that Lithuanian only became a written language very late in the 16th century because Ruthenian was actually the dominant language but after the Polish-Lithuanian Union was founded in 1385 because of the Polonization of Lithuania and the Ruthenian territories Polish became then finally the dominant language. The first book printed in the Lithuanian language was very late in only 1547. Lithuanian was mostly used as a spoken language and not in writing. So the earliest surviving written Lithuanian text is a translation dating from about only 1503-1525. So before being taken over by Poland in 1385, the East Slavic language Ruthenian, as most common language, was used as the written language, not Lithuanian. So that's why Lithuanian-Ruthenian is not wrong!