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Group: Cephalonia and Zakynthos, County palatine of
People: Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah
Topic: Russo-Swedish War of 1590-95
Location: Bristol Gloucestershire United Kingdom

Russo-Swedish War of 1590-95

Years: 1589 - 1595

The Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595 is instigated by Boris Godunov in the hope of recovering territory along the Gulf of Finland lost to Sweden during the previous Livonian War.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)