Realignment of the Russian-Polish Eastern European Order After the Treaty of Andrusovo

Timeline

1. 1670–1672Andrusovo · BelarusRussia and Poland exchanged prisoners per the 1667 treaty, confirmed Smolensk's transfer to Russia and Kiev's transfer to Russia after a two-year term, and surveyed the Dnieper-Sozh line, fixing the division of the Left Bank to Russia and the Right Bank to Poland.
2. 1672–1678Left Bank Ukraine (Hetmanate) · UkraineMuscovy strengthened its suzerainty through Hetman Briukhovetsky and his successors, stationed troops in Chernihiv and Kiev, and used the 1672 Polish-Ottoman War to expand diplomatic control over the Left Bank Cossacks.
3. 1672–1679Right Bank Ukraine · UkrainePoland faced pro-Ottoman, anti-Polish activities by Cossack leaders such as Petro Doroshenko and Ottoman intervention on the Right Bank, tying down Commonwealth military resources and preventing eastward pressure on Russia's new territories, tilting the Eastern European balance toward Moscow.