LTStraipsnyje apžvelgta, kaip Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius Lietuvos istorijoje charakterizuoja aprašomus legendinius ir istorinius asmenis. Buvo nagrinėtos tik tiesioginės, autoriaus lūpomis išsakytos charakteristikos. Apibendrinus tyrimą, pristatyta personažų apibūdinimo variantų klasifikacija, aptarta kiekvienos charakteristikos rūšies stilistika, nurodytos personažų charakterizavimo būdų ir principų sąsajos su antikinės istoriografijos principais.
ENThe author proposed the results of her research, how Albertas Vijūkas-Kojalavičius characterizes fabulous and historic persons in his "Historia Lituana". There was examined only direct characterization, given by Kojelavičius himself in this work. The characterization of all persons in "Historia Lituana" composed of the two types. More circumstantial, longer characterization, called all-inone, belongs to the first type. It is of the two sorts itself. Personal inner, spiritual and psychic, consequently more abstract features are defined by one of them, and this sort can be described as the follow-up of the literary tradition of Livy and some other Roman historians. Longer sentences (they have form of periods sometimes), rhetorical figures are typical for it. Another all-in-one characterization is created according to the tradition of Suetonius and another historians of the lives of the Caesars. Not only inner features, but individual habits are depicted by this sort of charcterization. Short sentences without ornamentation make its mark. Fragmentary characterization belongs to the second type. Kojalavičius uses it for subordinate persons first of all and usually conveys it in short phrases. Sometimes the author uses the fragmentary characterization for some persons just for this once. Sometimes he scatters it over bigger amount of the text, so it is necessary to collect all features of described person for the reader himself. Sometimes the fragmentary character is added to the all-in-one characterization.