Treaty of Polyanovka

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1. 1634Polyanovka River region · RussiaAfter Shein's army surrendered, the two states immediately opened peace talks. The Russian negotiators faced the disadvantage of the failed siege of Smolensk, while Poland was also exhausted by prolonged war; both sides wished to end the conflict. Talks proceeded along the Polyanovka River over several months of negotiation.
2. 1634Polyanovka River · Eastern EuropeThe treaty was formally signed. Main terms: Russia returned several towns briefly occupied during the war; Poland retained Smolensk, Chernihiv, Novosil and other territories; Russia paid twenty thousand rubles as ransom for the Polish king's renunciation of the tsarist title; Władysław IV formally and permanently renounced all claims to the Russian tsarist title. The treaty maintained roughly twenty years of Russian-Polish peace.