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
Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) commonly the "Russo–Polish War", with the term Russia replacing the term Muscovy. In Polish historiography, the wars are usually referred to as the "Dimitriads": the "First Dymitriad" (1605–1606) and "Second Dymitriad" (1607–1609) and the "Polish–Muscovite War" (1609–1618), which can subsequently be divided into two wars of 1609–1611 and 1617–1618, and may or may not include the 1617–1618 campaign, which is sometimes referred to as "Chodkiewicz [Muscovite] Campaign". According to Russian historiography, the chaotic events of the war fall into the "Time of Troubles". The conflict with Poles is commonly called the "Polish Invasion", "Polish Intervention", or more specifically the "Polish