Kant︠s︡ler Lev Sapega
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translation: Chancellor Leo Sapega
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Lev Ivanovich Sapega (April 4, 1557, Ostrovno, now the Beshenkovichi district, Belarus - July 7, 1633, Vilna) - statesman and military leader of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, diplomat and political thinker. Some historians attribute to Leo Sapieha the initiative to create an outstanding monument of legal and political thought in Europe - the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of 1588, adding that he was the main developer of the codification.