⌂ Atlas ☰ Read as a page The thread: How did the Commonwealth whose soldiers held the Kremlin in 1610 come to be overrun from three sides in 1655, and what did surviving cost it?
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Key

The Commonwealth Sweden Muscovy Zaporozhian Cossacks Ottomans and Crimea Brandenburg-Prussia bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611) and the Battle of Kircholm, 27 September 1605 — source
  2. Polish–Russian War (1609–1618): the Swedish alliance, Smolensk, Klushino, Władysław's election, the Kremlin garrison, Deulino — source
  3. Battle of Cecora (1620) and Battle of Khotyn (1621) — source
  4. Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) and the Truce of Altmark — source
  5. Smolensk War, Shein's surrender and the Peace of Polyanovka — source
  6. Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Registered Cossacks and the Ordinance of 1638 — source
  7. Bohdan Khmelnytsky: Subotiv, the Sich, Zhovti Vody, Korsun, Pereiaslav — source
  8. Treaty of Zboriv, Battle of Berestechko and Battle of Batih — source
  9. The Deluge: Ujście, Kėdainiai, Warsaw, Kraków, Jasna Góra, Tyszowce, the Lwów vows, Battle of Warsaw — source
  10. Treaty of Wehlau and Bromberg, 1657 — source
  11. Treaty of Hadiach, Battle of Konotop and the Pereiaslav Articles of 1659 — source
  12. Treaty of Oliva, Battle of Polonka and Battle of Chudniv, 1660 — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Poland–Lithuania, 1600–1660

How did the Commonwealth whose soldiers held the Kremlin in 1610 come to be overrun from three sides in 1655, and what did surviving cost it?
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