Lietuvos istorijos metraštis

The annexation of the Land of Smolensk by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1395 had a great impact on the situation of the ecclesiastical officials of the Orthodox Church in this region. The article investigates the development of the careers of the ecclesiastical officials of

The article discusses the autograph of Jonas Radvila, the son of Mikalojus Radvila, the palatine of Vilnius and Grand Chancellor of Lithuania. It considers which cursive script (Gothic or Humanist) the palatine’s son learnt to write in his childhood, how his hand correlates with the autographs of the earlier generation and of his contemporaries from his milieu, how it reflects the trends of the Latin cursive of the time and the daily practices of the use of the Gothic and Gothic cursive script.

The article addresses the development of Liudvinavas, a town in south-eastern Lithuania, which was established by Ludwik Konstanty Pociej and was granted the Magdeburg Law in 1719, in the eighteenth century. The history of the town is analysed by discussing its location (the process of establishment) and spatial structure, the town authorities (officials, voigts, the elders of Punia), and the community of its residents (its ethnic and confessional composition).

The article dwells on the events of the Great Northern War (1700–1721) related to the Duchy of Courland. It focuses on the warfare in a particular region, the border area between the Duchy of Courland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, from the entry of the Swedes into the

Based on a study on the Czechoslovak railways and spatial planning by the German historian Felix Konrad Jeschke, the article analyses analogous processes in the First Republic of Lithuania in several respects. On the basis of published and archival documents and historiography, the article examines the takeover of the Lithuanian railways after the First World War, the preparation and implementation of development projects during the years of statehood, and the impact of these processes on the consolidation of Lithuanian space.