Klushino 1610: Poland Crushed 35,000 Russians With Just 7,000 Men — Then Took Moscow
Автор: Dark History Class
Загружено: 2025-12-22
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The Battle of Klushino (also spelled Kłuszyn in Polish) took place on July 4, 1610, during the Polish-Muscovite War, which was itself part of Russia's catastrophic "Time of Troubles" (Smutnoye Vremya) lasting from 1598 to 1613.
The Time of Troubles began with the death of Tsar Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty that had ruled Russia for over 700 years. The succession crisis that followed created a power vacuum exploited by rival boyar factions, foreign powers, and a series of pretenders claiming to be Tsarevich Dmitry—the murdered son of Ivan the Terrible.
The Great Famine of 1601-1603, likely caused by volcanic activity in Peru cooling the Northern Hemisphere, killed hundreds of thousands of Russians and destroyed the legitimacy of Tsar Boris Godunov. Two "False Dmitrys" emerged, each backed by Polish interests, throwing Russia into civil war.
By 1610, when Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski led his forces to Klushino, Russia was fractured between Tsar Vasily Shuisky in Moscow, the second False Dmitry at Tushino, and various regional warlords. The Swedish mercenaries fighting for Vasily hadn't been paid in months.
Żółkiewski exploited these fractures with devastating precision.
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