RRELIGIOUS SEGREGATION AS THE REASON OF LOSS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
The article focuses on problems of political struggle and segregation on religious grounds in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It examines issues related to similarities and differences in legitimation of Lithuanian princes in the context of Orthodox and Catholic political tradition. The article studies consequences of the forceful imposition of Catholicism in the Lithuanian-Russian state and analyzes problems of state development after the territorial expansion and turning of the Lithuanian-Russian state into Grand Duchy in XIV-th century. The problems of struggle between Orthodox and Catholic feudal elite during the civil war at the beginning of the XV-th century.