#LMAOOOO the only correct way to talk to ruzzia (also this implies that Algirdas was faster than the messenger lololol)

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"How Algirdas taught the Moscow duke a lesson.

The Moscow grand duke Dmitry, “having broken peace and friendship without any reason, sent his messenger to the grand duke Algirdas with a declaration of war, and sent him fire and a sword, giving him to understand that “I will be in your land after a bright spring, after a quiet summer.”

The grand duke Algirdas took out a sponge and flint from his bag and, having lit the sponge, gave it to the messenger, saying thus: “Give this to your ruler and tell him that we, Lithuanians, have fire; and since he threatens to enter my land after the bright spring and after the quiet summer, then I, God willing, will be with him at Easter and will kiss him with a red egg, through the shield with a spear, and with God's help, I will rest my spear against the wall of his Muscovite Kremlin, for not the warrior who fights at a convenient time, but the one who reveals his warlike disposition to the enemy at an inconvenient time.”

Thus, dismissing the messenger, Algirdas summoned his entire army and headed straight to Moscow.

On Easter morning itself, after the resurrection service, the Grand Duke of Moscow with the nobles was leaving the church, when the Grand Duke Algirdas with all his forces, unfurling his banners, appeared on the Greeting Hill.

And, seeing this, the Grand Duke of Moscow fell into the greatest fear and horror, because he saw that the Grand Duke Algirdas had come to him with his great force.”

Lithuania had conquered Moscow that year.

Quotes from Chronika Bychaŭca, the Lithuanian-Belaruthian chronicle written in XVI century, written in Old Belaruthian language.