Essays on the History of the Livonian War. From Narva to Fellin. 1558-1561.
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Essays on the History of the Livonian War. From Narva to Fellin. 1558-1561.
14.99 €
In January 1558, Russian troops, under orders from Ivan the Terrible, crossed the Russo-Livonian border. For four years, from 1558 to 1561, the Baltic region was engulfed in the flames of a war that soon became known as the Livonian War (in turn, this war became part of a longer conflict, which can be called the War of the Livonian Succession, which lasted de facto from 1555 to 1595). As a result of the actions of the Russian troops, the "sick man" of northeastern Europe, the Livonian "Confederation," consisting of the Livonian Order, the Archbishopric of Riga, and a number of other smaller holdings, was defeated, disintegrated, and divided among powerful and greedy neighbors. The history of this war, despite its significance for the subsequent history of not only Russia and the Baltic states, but also the states that intervened in the conflict—Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, and Denmark—has been extremely poorly studied, especially by Russian historiography. This short work, written using both domestic and foreign sources and literature, fills this gap. It provides a brief military-historical (and partly diplomatic) outline of this conflict, which will be useful not only to historians, but also to anyone interested in Russian history, and especially the history of Russian military affairs in the 16th century.
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