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1634

Treaty of Polianov

1634

Russia and Poland concluded a peace ending the Smolensk War. Tsar Michael acknowledged Polish control of Smolensk; the Polish king Wladyslaw renounced his claim to the Russian throne. The exhausted peace bought Muscovy breathing room to rebuild, while Poland began its long and fatal slide toward the constitutional anarchy that would eventually erase it from the map.