Ar tikrai 1734 m. buvo išniekinti Vytauto Didžiojo palaikai? (Naujai atrastas šaltinis, minintis Vytauto Didžiojo palaikus)
Were the Remains of Vytautas the Great Really Disgraced? (Newly Discovered Source Commemorating the Remains of Vytautas the Great)

Summary/Abstract: For a long time, Lithuanian historians have been trying to locate the remains of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas. The information about the remains ends in the middle of the 17th century with the publication of Long time memory, a short relation about the transaction of Lithuanians and Moscow published in a collection of documents in 1734. It is alleged that when the Russian army attacked Vilnius and plundered the cathedral, the epitaph of the Grand Duke Vytautas was broken and his heart was thrown away from the golden box. The author of this article expresses some doubts about the authenticity of these facts because the available historical sources do not state that Vytautas’ heart was buried separately from his body. These historical sources do not contain any information about the breaking of Vytautas’ epitaph. The alleged disgrace of the remains of Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, could be treated as an attempt to exaggerate the scale of the Russian army’s plundering of Vilnius.

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