Wars
Livonian War
Defeat · conquests relinquished
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- 1558–1583
The war for influence in the eastern Baltic began as a conflict with the Livonian Confederation and expanded into a struggle with Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The Russian state relinquished its gains in Livonia and lost several fortresses.
- Period
- 1558–1583
- Belligerents
- The Russian state — the Livonian Confederation, then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania/Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden; participants changed over time
- Outcome
- Failure of Russian policy in the Baltic; territorial losses
- Settlement
- Truce of Yam-Zapolsky with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1582); Truce of Plussa with Sweden (1583)