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Russo-Polish War, 1610s Phase

Type Event Region Eastern Europe Time 1610–1618

The 1609–1618 Russo-Polish (Smolensk) War peaked in the 1610s: Polish troops occupied Moscow and backed Władysław IV as tsar candidate during the Tim…

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  1. 1610–1611Moscow · RussiaIn 1610 Polish troops entered Moscow amid Russian civil strife, and some boyars proposed installing the Polish prince Władysław as tsar. In 1611 Polish garrisons controlled the Kremlin, central Russian authority collapsed, and local militias and pretender forces coexisted.
  2. 1611–1612Moscow · RussiaIn 1611–1612 the first and second militias, led by Prokopy Lyapunov, Dmitry Pozharsky, and others, organized resistance against Poland; in November 1612 the militia recaptured Moscow, forcing the Polish army to withdraw and scoring a key victory for Russia's national revival.
  3. 1613–1618Smolensk–Ukraine border · Eastern EuropeAfter Moscow's recapture the war's focus shifted east to Smolensk and elsewhere; in 1613 Poland besieged Smolensk again. In 1618 Cossack, Polish, and Russian operations intertwined, and in December that year the Truce of Deulino was signed, leaving Poland in possession of Smolensk and other occupied lands and ending this phase of the war.

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