Ingrian War

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The Ingrian War, which lasted from 1610 to 1617, and can be seen as part of the Time of Troubles, was initiated by Sweden against Russia as a reaction of the Swedish contingents to tsar Vasily Shuisky not receiving payment for their succour during the De la Gardie Campaign nor the Crown of Sweden the promised recompensation. The war is mainly remembered for the attempt to put a Swedish duke (Carl Filip, son of Charles IX) on the Russian throne and ending with a large Swedish territorial gain in the Treaty of Stolbovo which laid an important foundation to Sweden's Age of Greatness.

When Novgorod submitted provisionally to the suzerainty of Sweden, Swedish statesmen had believed, for a moment, in the creation of a Trans-baltic dominion extending northwards to Archangelsk and eastwards to Vologda. The rallying of the Russian nation round the throne of the new tsar, Michael Romanov, dissipated, once for all, this ambitious dream. By the beginning of 1616, Gustavus II Adolphus had become convinced of the impossibility of partitioning reunited Russia, while Michael I of Russia wanted to cease hostilities as at the time Russia was involved in both the Ingrian war and the Polish-Russian War (1605-1618). The Ingrian war concluded with the Treaty of Stolbovo, signed on February 27, 1617, by which Russia ceded the province of Ingria to Sweden with the townships of Ivangorod, Jama (now Kingisepp), Koporye and Nöteborg (now Shlisselburg).

See also

• Rise of Sweden as a Great Power#The Ingrian War
• The De la Gardie Campaign
• Dymitriads
• Polish-Swedish War
• Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky

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