• When the Teutonic Knights took the castle and destroyed it, Duke Vytautas (who at that time was a child and saw the knights destroying his beloved place) made...
  • 107 Vytautas videos are available under a royalty-free license. ... Trakai Castle and Lake Galve near Vilnius, Lithuania. The famous Vytautas castle, aerial view.
  • In 1409 the second Samogitian uprising, backed by Vytautas, against the Teutonic Knights started. The rebels burned Skirsnemunė castle.
  • However, the knights ruled Samogitia for only three years, because on 13 March 1401, the Samogitians, supported by Vytautas, rebelled and burned two castles.
  • “It must be Grand Duke Vytautas,” figured Antanas because he had seen a similar image at the exhibition of the castle’s museum.
  • In 1398, Vytautas' army attacked a part of the Crimea and built a castle there. Now Lithuania spanned from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
  • Vytautas' wife Anna was allowed to visit him in the castle. During one of these visits, Vytautas dressed in the clothes of one of Anna's female servants.