The Alexander Nevsky’s Lithuanian Campaign

For some reason, many really important events in the history of a country could fall out of what is called the people's memory. And despite all its significance for the fate of the people, they are not accepted to remember-neither in special studies, especially, in school textbooks. One of these events in the history of our country is the Lithuanian campaign of Alexander Nevsky in 1245. Indeed, the campaign of Alexander Yaroslavich to Lithuania is a "white spot" in historiography, despite its scale and results. The attitude of historians towards it, which can be described as insufficient attention or even silence, indicates that many of them either underestimate the military power of the Principality of Lithuania at the dawn of their formation, paying more attention to the “crusading aggression” of the West, or consider it necessary to consider the growth of Lithuania’s power in a much later period, at the time of the rise of Moscow, after the Kulikovo Battle, etc., forgetting that each process is most rationally studied from the source. The purpose of this work is to establish the significance of Alexander Nevsky's campaign in Lithuania in 1245 in a broad historical context.