Lietuvas lielkņazistes sabiedrības attieksme pret Ziemeļu kara sākumu 1700. gadā

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Augustas II, 1670-1733 (Frýdrichas Augùstas I, Friedrich August I, Stiprusis); Didikai ir magnatai; Didysis Šiaurės karas, 1700-1721 (Great Northern war); Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė (LDK; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; GDL); Rygos apgultis; Sapiegos (Sapiega family); Visuomenės požiūris; Šiaurės karas; Attitude of Society; Augustus II - Saxony; Great Northern War, 1700-1721; Nobles; The Great Northern War; The siege of Riga.

ENThe year 1700 is marked by the beginning of the Great Northern War. Officially only one of the states ruled by Augustus II - Saxony - fought against Sweden. Therefore the army of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania could not take part in attack on Riga on February 1700. Howewer, Polish and Lithuanian noblemen, encouraged by the King, started recruiting auxiliary units and sending them to military camp. The King hoped to receive support from both antagonistic groups of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - the noblemen Sapieha who dominated in the country for several decades and the "republicans" who fought against them. However, either group the first of all saw a danger for itself in military preparedness of the opponent. The Great Hetman of Lithuania Jan Casimir Sapieha sent the first unit - light cavalry (the Tartars) - to Riga in March. At the beginning of April these units already participated in fights. In the spring and summer J. C. Sapieha also sent infantrymen of the Hungarian formation there. Till August it was only the Sapieha who provided the Saxonian Army with real military support. Meetings of the "republicans" that were organised by noblemen and held in the districts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at that time only declared their desire to assist the King, and real military preparations were sooner directed towards renewing military confrontation with Sapieha. On 18 November 1700, in the vicinity of Valkininkai, the forces of opposing camps of the the Grand Duchy of Lithuania fought one another, which determined the Sapieha defeat in the internal war. [From the publication]