Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1368–1372) fight. The episode with the spear was probably borrowed from Polish historiography: King Boleslaus I of Poland used his sword (Szczerbiec) to hit the Golden Gate in Kiev in 1018. Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1368–1372) The Lithuanian–Muscovite War encompasses three raids by Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, to the Grand Duchy of Moscow in 1368, 1370, and 1372. Algirdas organized the raids against Dmitry Donskoy in support of the Principality of Tver, chief rival of Moscow. In 1368 and 1370, Lithuanians besieged Moscow and burned the posad, but did not succeed in taking the city's Kremlin. In 1372, the Lithuanian army was
A Way in the World A Way in the World A Way in the World is a 1994 book by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. Although it was marketed as a novel in America, "A Way in the World" which consists of linked narratives, is arguably something different. Despite his achievements as a novelist, in later life Naipaul has described the novel as an outmoded form. "A Way in the World" was published in the UK with the sub-title "sequence", and this is reflected in British reviews. In the USA it was published as a novel, apparently at the request of the American publisher. "A