The problematic of the Lithuanian state’s origin has developed of hard conditions. Monographies about the king Mindaugas, which had given a right view of events, issued J. Latkowski and J. Totoraitis in the years 1892 and 1905 only. 1931–1932 appeared earnest of H. Łowmiański and raised at once this problematic on the world level. However led the searching’s situation to the notunderstandig of this excellent book. The second world broke all scientific work and a severe ideological reglamentation of the soviet occupant power did not let to come to the searching of a state’s forming theme. Only 1959 appeared in Moscow a study of the russian historian V. Pashuto, which had given limited posibilities to work in this direction for the lithuanian historians. Nevertheless those possibilities were not good used, because the new generation of medievists in Lithuania was not yet grown enough. |