"I'm hooked, you get hooked too." Hurnievič on the new historical project "Vytautas' Crown"

Well, some people really have initiative. A group of Belarusian historians and popularizers of our past has launched the historical online magazine "Vytautas' Crown." In the era of TikToks and YouTube, we are offered to read again. And it's interesting. Especially since it's sensation after sensation. I've never heard of such things. The website works in Belarusian and Russian. There are already about 20 articles, and several new ones will appear weekly. There are great topics and plots, many of which are absolutely new to me with interesting twists.

Kościuszko donated money for the freedom of American slaves. But relatives from Belarus were against it and took everything down to the last cent, plus interest. The Russian Embassy in Washington was even involved in the case.

For example, "The Shadow of Vytautas. She 'cleaned up' after the Grand Duke," is dedicated to a diplomat, visionary, charismatic figure — Anna Kęstutaitė, wife of Grand Duke Vytautas. Anna's contemporaries claimed that she was one of the most beautiful women in Eastern Europe. And very business-like and effective.

How Belarusian anarchists started. There were times when Belarus led the anarchist movement in Eastern Europe. Hrodna and Białystok, which was then administratively part of the Hrodna Governorate — these two cities were the strongest centers of anarchism in the Russian Empire.

Rule forever. The diet secrets of Jogaila, Sigismund, Casimir.

Do you know that kings of the Crown and grand dukes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were strictly forbidden to consume melons? And a fish recipe from the Niasviž Radziwills became a popular dish in the imperial cuisine of Austria-Hungary?

How Belarusians surprised the world in the 19th century. About the history of Belarusian participation in world exhibition forums. How many people know that oats produced in Liaŭki, Horki county, were awarded a silver medal in London? Belarusian tobacco products, for example, received a silver medal at international exhibitions in Amsterdam (1883), New Orleans (1885), the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, and a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Turin in 1911.

Section "Figures". And there's another surprise. Frantsishak Paprotski — the first chief editor of the first regular newspaper in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Born in Belarus on June 10, 1723, probably in the Minsk region.

It's wonderful that in all this darkness, people want to create. "For You, Belarus," is the message from the authors. Thank you, good people! I'm hooked, you get hooked too.

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