Truce of Deulino

Russia-Poland [1618]
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Date:
December 1618 - 1632
Participants:
Poland
Russia

Truce of Deulino, (December 1618), agreement suspending for 14 and a half years the hostilities between Poland and Russia that had their beginning with the death of Ivan IV (the Terrible) in 1584 and continued through a prolonged dispute over the Russian throne. The truce placed Smolensk, as well as other conquered western Russian territories, in Poland’s possession. The policies adopted by Ivan led Russia into a state of complete disarray, and his son and heir, Fyodor, was an ineffectual ruler unsuited to the task of restoring order. He deferred to his advisers to such an extent that one, the ...(100 of 536 words)