Triumph and the beginning of decline

Nicholas Zharkikh

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In April 1506, the sick King Alexander came to Vilnius. His illness was defined as paralysis (Miechowsky), but apparently it was not yet complete helplessness.

M. L. Glynsky, as it shows itinerary, was with the king, until in the summer the news came that the Tatars had attacked Great Duchy of Lithuania and were going straight to Vilna.

And so in the battle near Kletsk (it is 1,050 km from Bakhchisaray and only 200 km from Vilnius), the Tatars, commanded by two princes, sons of Mengli-Girey, were defeated.

Deathly ill King Alexander still managed to learn about the victory and died 10 days after the battle, on August 18.

Sigismund, feeling like a new broom, decided to sweep his great principality in a new way, and this immediately affected the position of Mykhailo Glynsky. The first mention about him at the new ruler – November 25, 1506 – titles him "the governor of Utena", and only that.

Mykhailo did not consider his cause lost and turned to neighboring rulers for help.