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This year marks the 600th anniversary of the election of Vytautas as king of the Czech Republic. We already talked about him in previous shows with historian Inga Baranauskiene. Today we will talk about one more character without whom the theoretical reign of Vytautas in the Czech Republic would be impossible, that is, his deputy in the Czech Republic Žygimantas Kaributaitis. The book "Zygmunt Korybutowicz" by Ježís Grygelis in Polish has been published about him. He did not receive many monographs, but he was sufficiently known and interesting. He died in the Battle of the Monster. Polish sources greatly emphasize and emphasize the participation of Žygimantas Kaributaitis in that battle, portraying (wrongly) that he brought a huge army of Hussites to that battle. And he emphasizes this because he was a "heretic" and his participation on the opposite side justified the fight against Švitrigaila in general...