Martin Antonenko
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On December 11, 1618, the Tsarism of Russia and the Rzeczpospolita (the Grand Duchy of Poland-Lithuania) signed an armistice in the small town of Deulino near Moscow, which ended the Polish-Russian war that lasted from 1609 to 1618.
In the treaty, both sides committed themselves to a fourteen and a half year ceasefire.
In order to grant the Russians an armistice at all, the Polish King Sigismund III. Wasa forced the Russian Tsar Wassilij IV to go personally to Warsaw and to pay homage to him with a ritual kneeling ...:
The militarily inferior and war-bled Russia must - grudgingly - recognize the Polish-Lithuanian rule over the areas of Smolensk, Chernihiv and Nowhorod-Siverskyj, from which separate voivodships are formed and which are incorporated into the power of the Rzeczpospolita.
By giving up land, Russia is buying peace - and independence! In a very similar situation, Lenin and Trotsky would pursue the same tactics in 1918 in the negotiations between Brest-Litovsk and the victorious Germans.
The Poles are triumphant: The Rzeczpospolita has reached its greatest historical extent and only ends 150 kilometers from Moscow!
But whoever triumphs too early ...
The Russians will use the fourteen and a half years of rest to consolidate and arm themselves.
And as soon as the armistice has expired, they will take bloody revenge:
In this Russian-Polish war (1654–1667) the Russians will prevail ...
... and the tsar dictate the terms of peace!
In the peace treaty of Andrussowo, the Rzeczpospolita will have to cede all areas conquered in 1618 - as well as all areas east of the Dnepr, including the "mother of all Russian cities", Kiev.
On December 11, 1618, the Tsarism of Russia and the Rzeczpospolita (the Grand Duchy of Poland-Lithuania) signed an armistice in the small town of Deulino near Moscow, which ended the Polish-Russian war that lasted from 1609 to 1618.
In the treaty, both sides committed themselves to a fourteen and a half year ceasefire.
In order to grant the Russians an armistice at all, the Polish King Sigismund III. Wasa forced the Russian Tsar Wassilij IV to go personally to Warsaw and to pay homage to him with a ritual kneeling ...:
The militarily inferior and war-bled Russia must - grudgingly - recognize the Polish-Lithuanian rule over the areas of Smolensk, Chernihiv and Nowhorod-Siverskyj, from which separate voivodships are formed and which are incorporated into the power of the Rzeczpospolita.
By giving up land, Russia is buying peace - and independence! In a very similar situation, Lenin and Trotsky would pursue the same tactics in 1918 in the negotiations between Brest-Litovsk and the victorious Germans.
The Poles are triumphant: The Rzeczpospolita has reached its greatest historical extent and only ends 150 kilometers from Moscow!
But whoever triumphs too early ...
The Russians will use the fourteen and a half years of rest to consolidate and arm themselves.
And as soon as the armistice has expired, they will take bloody revenge:
In this Russian-Polish war (1654–1667) the Russians will prevail ...
... and the tsar dictate the terms of peace!
In the peace treaty of Andrussowo, the Rzeczpospolita will have to cede all areas conquered in 1618 - as well as all areas east of the Dnepr, including the "mother of all Russian cities", Kiev.
