Olgerd biography

The conquest of the principality of Vitebsky. Campaigns to Smolensk land. The accession of the Chernigov lands war with the Horde. Lithuanian-Moscow war-years. Campaigns to the Principality of Moscow, and years. The war with Poland for the possession of Volyn's capture of Bryansk Battle on the banks of the Blue Waters, with the Golden Horde. The capture of the Kyiv Battle of Kiev, with the Principality of Moscow, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, who significantly expanded the borders of the state, the successful commander after the death of his father, Olgerd, Gedimin-Russian state, turned out to be fragmented between his sons and his brother.

The youngest of the sons of Gedimin, Yavnutius sat in the table city of Vilna. However, he was not a great prince, since all the sons of Gedimin retained complete independence, while Olgerd and Keistut, having come to an agreement, did not take over the leading role in the Lithuanian state. The reason for this agreement was the increased desire of the crusaders after the death of Gedimin to master Lithuania.

Prior to this, Olgerd owned the city of Krevo, as well as the lands that were drawn to it to the Berezina River, and the principality of Vitebsky, who was drawn to him as a dowry, Vitebsk princess Marya Yaroslavnoye. At the beginning of G. Olgerd and Keistut decided to move to Javnutius. Keistut besieged Vilna, captured Javnius and put Olgerd on the Grand Duke. The brothers entered into an agreement according to which everyone had to obey Olgerd as a Grand Duke.

Olgerd and Keistut had to maintain a close alliance and friendship and all new acquisitions equally. Yaroslavl Lithuania was given to the possession of Yavnutia. The new order did not meet serious resistance from the specific princes, except for the unsuccessful attempts of Javnia and Marimunta who fled to Moscow. The partisan struggle of the Lithuanians with the crusaders mainly led Keistut.

Olgerd himself directed all his efforts to expand the limits of the Lithuanian state at the expense of Russian lands and strengthen his influence in Novgorod, Pskov and Smolensk. In Novgorod and Pskov, he managed to do a little. In the last year of the reign of Olgerd, Pskovichi accepted his son Andrei to reign. Olgerd fought with the Novgorodians for a long time, and only by the end of his reign was the Politovsk party formed there, inferior in the meaning and influence of the Moscow party.

And only in Smolensk Olgerd managed to achieve more significant successes. He acted as a defender of the Smolensk Prince Ivan Alexandrovich, obliging him to act at the same time with him. The son of Ivan Alexandrovich Svyatoslav was already in a completely dependent position from the Lithuanian prince. He was obliged to accompany Olgerd on campaigns and give the Smolensk army to fight the crusaders.

The slightest evasion of Svyatoslav from these duties entailed the campaign of Olgerd to Smolensk land and its devastation. Near G. Olgerd, after which he was also submitted by many of the other destinies, into which the Chernihic-Seversky Principality broke up. In the city of Olgerd he sent an embassy to the Horde, offering Khan Dzhanibek to conclude an alliance against the Moscow Prince Semyon Ground, but he did not succeed.

Then Olgerd in G. Olgerd invaded Moscow and approached Moscow itself, but could not take it and, standing for three days, returned back. The consequence of this campaign was a temporary weakening of Moscow’s influence on Tver affairs. Olgerd went to Moscow again, but concluded a truce for six months and returned back to Lithuania. The campaign of G. all complaints against the Tver prince should have been decided by the Khan court.

After that, the influence of Lithuania on Tver finally fell. Olgerd defeated the blue waters of three Tatar princes on the banks of the river, who controlled Podolsky land. After that, the Horde retired to the Crimea, and in the hands of Olgerd there was a huge territory - the entire left half of the Dniester basin, from the mouth of the river to the sea, the entire pool of the South Bug, the Dnieper estrons and the Dnieper space before the Ros River.

Olgerd took possession of Kiev without a struggle, removed the Prince Fedor, who reigned there, and sent Kyiv to his son Vladimir. Olgerd gave the Podolsk land to his nephews, the sons of the brother of Koriast. The long -term dispute between them was completed only in G. with the help of the intermediary of Keistut between Olgerd and Louis, an agreement was concluded under which the inheritance of Beresteysky, Vladimirsky and Lutski were recognized as Lithuania, and the Kholm and Velskaya lands retreated to Poland.

There is evidence that even before his marriage to Maria Yaroslavna, Olgerd accepted Orthodoxy, and shortly before his death and Schima. The military leaders of the same country and the era may also be interested in the main page:.