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People: Jean-François Gerbillon
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Both Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth are …

Years: 1615 - 1615

Both Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth are shaken by internal strife while many smaller factions thrive.

Polish Lisowczycy mercenaries, who had been essential in the defense of Smolensk in 1612, when most of regulars (wojsko kwarciane) mutinied and joined the konfederacja rohatynska, had been content to guard the Polish border against the Russian incursions for the next three years.

Aleksander Józef Lisowski gathers many outlaws in 1615, however, and invades Russia with six chorągiew of cavalry.

He besieges Bryansk and ...