The article calls Kreva a fortified residence of the Grand Dukes Gediminas and Algirdas. It gives no builder, architect, construction date or style, and mentions only its walls. Kęstutis was imprisoned there in 1382, and the Union of Krewo was signed there three years later. The village stands about 720 feet (220 m) above sea level.
Crimean Tatars sacked the castle in the early 16th century, and it stood unoccupied for a long time afterward. Much of the walls had crumbled by the 19th century. It was damaged in World War I, when it stood on the Russian-German front line.
It was partly conserved in the 19th and 20th centuries, notably by Poland in 1929, and the article describes it as decaying since. It is a ruin. No owner or heritage listing is named.
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