Grand Duchy of Lithuania from dawn to sunset

There is a glorious and mysterious state in history - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Zhometsk and Russian. It belongs to the number of “half -forgotten states of Europe” that disappeared from the face, but its scientific and cultural significance is great and multifaceted. Without knowledge of his history, the history of Kievan Rus (IX - early XIII centuries). At the same time, the knowledge of the Moscow state will be inadequate, if we do not take into account the history of the neighbor, not to conduct constant comparisons and not take into account their difficult relationships. It is equally important to understand how this state influenced the next centuries, how the countries and peoples of our days appeared from its subsoil. The history of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, the Western Regions of Russia spare its roots. Without this country, you can’t fully understand the history of Poland.