And here I will offer my version. Not the original, true. I believe that the most prominent, majestic, and most glorious person for Lithuania is Vytautas the Great (not in vain did he receive the name the Great, no other person earned that). Why him? Because during his reign, Lithuanian lands stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Because during his reign, Lithuania was the most powerful in its entire history.
And it doesn’t matter that evil tongues wag that because he had only one offspring, long hair, or no beard, he was possibly gay. It doesn’t matter, because – first – that’s what envious people say, who dare to bark only knowing that they won’t have to answer for their words. If they tried to insult the ruler personally, I guarantee that despite his short stature (people were smaller in those days), the first blow to the offender would be decisive, and the second would only be desecration of a corpse.
And second – what difference does it make what his orientation was, the most important thing is that Lithuania, ruled by him, was arguably the strongest state in Europe. True, it is sad that his daughter Sophia, having married into Moscow, strengthened the Rurikid dynasty, which greatly harmed Lithuania (Sophia’s great-grandson was the psychopath and sadist Ivan the Terrible).
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Modern Trakai are not rhetorical, so let’s talk about them.
Here I would give Vytautas a minus for not-so-distant foresight, because you can see for yourselves how much we still suffer from that Moscow. However, of course, it’s easy to talk now – after all, in those days, when the main enemy was the German, things could have looked completely different.
So, now that we’ve clarified about the most prominent one, I will raise a question. How do you think Vytautas the Great, having arrived in the present, would evaluate modern Trakai, which were his main home? Would he be happy or angry? The question, of course, is rhetorical – we neither know Vytautas’s view on things nor understand his psychology. However, modern Trakai are not rhetorical, so let’s talk about them.
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