Early Modern era · 1590 – 1595

Russo-Swedish War

The Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595 was instigated by Boris Godunov in the hope of gaining the territory of the Duchy of Estonia along the Gulf of Finland belonging to Sweden since the previous Livonian War.

Russo-Swedish War
Russo-Swedish War · Lisa Schwalb, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
1590 – 1595
Where
Baltic Sea
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Before and after

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