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Vaišvilkas ruled only a small part of Lithuania. Baptism of Lithuania was a formal move. No one was showing intention to spread western religion here because as usually they faced with strong resistance. Orthodox people were killed many times - in XIV century, martyrs of Vilnius. I doubt...

There were some attempts. Duke Algirdas. But back in XIII-XIV century, the ruling class of GDL was pagan. It was impossible to be christian (both East or West) and rule pagan lands - Mindaugas case confirms that (even though that his baptism was rather a fictional..) Grand Duke Algirdas (or...

Interesting thread! There were at least one certain example of an attempt to introduce Germanization (via Teutonic Order). After the "formal" baptism, Vytautas the Great eventually centralized the country by using similar to TO model. Looking from cultural point of view we see that castles...

This "theory" or in better words - legends were created in XVI-XVII century. It was Roman vs Sarmatism, not Lithuanian Pagansim vs Polish Sarmatism, although some authors, chronicles, writers found many similarities between latin and lithuanian language and between ancient roman gods and...

According to Jesuit "reports" Lithuanian largely remained pagans after 1600s. There there are evidence that in many parts paganism was alive even in 1770. For instance, Kristijonas Donelaitis wrote about local people still praying to their Gods. Worlds famous scientist Birutė Galdikas stated...