Beginnings of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

"The Beginnings of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" is a thorough and systematized presentation of sources and historiography dedicated to the genesis and early history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The publication reveals the prerequisites, factors, and course of state formation, contains numerous quotes from key sources, and an extensive bibliography. The book will be useful for university lecturers, students, and anyone deeply studying the problem of the origin of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Appendices with articles, reviews, and discussions help to see the broader context and contradictions that accompany this issue in scholarship. The cover features Pavel Tatarnikov's reconstruction of Navahrudak from the 13th–14th centuries.

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A systematized presentation of sources and historiography on the emergence and early history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Description of the prerequisites, factors, and course of the state-building process. Numerous quotes from the most important sources, extensive bibliography

are intended to facilitate the preparation of lectures and classes for university lecturers, as well as the independent study of the problem of the genesis of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Articles, reviews, and discussions in the Appendices detail important aspects of the problem and reveal the contradictions associated with it, not only of a scientific nature. The textbook is based on the author's monographs "The Creation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" and "History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1248-1377."

The cover features Pavel Tatarnikov's reconstruction drawing of Navahrudak from the 13th-14th centuries.