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Poland exploited Russia's civil wars when powerful members of the Polish szlachta began influencing Russian boyars and supporting successive pretenders to the title of tsar of Russia against the crowned tsars Boris Godunov (r. 1598–1605) and Vasili IV Shuysky (r. 1606–1610). [4]
The Russians advance into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth led to the kingdom of Sweden invading Poland in 1655 under King Charles X. Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin then opened negotiations with the Poles and signed an armistice, Truce of Vilna , on 2 November.
On May 27, 1606, the impostor was murdered, and a lull ensued in the Polish campaign to seize the heart of Russia.
Wars and Conflicts Between Russia and Poland. Flag of Poland. Polish Intervention in Russia (1605-1609)- Polish took advantage of Russia's "Time of Troubles" to intervene militarily in Russia. Battle of Balkhov (1608)-A Polish army, allied with 45,000 Cossacks, defeated the forces of Basil Shuisky. Battle of Chadyuka River (1608) - -Poles ...
2 dni temu · In the period from 1606 to 1613, during the so-called Time of Troubles, chaos gripped most of central Muscovy; Muscovite boyars, Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian Cossacks, and assorted mobs of adventurers and desperate citizens were among the chief actors.
RUSSO-POLISH WARS. From the 1480s to 1667 Muscovy fought a series of devastating wars along its western frontier, first with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The threat spurred Russia and Poland-Lithuania to look for closer ties, resulted in the anti-Turkish and anti-Crimean alliance that was signed less than a year after the truce of Andrusovo, in December 1667.
