King Stefan Batory died abruptly in Grodno on December 12, 1586 after a cold caused by hunting in forestous areas. At the age of 54, it was most likely not a fatal disease, so poisoning was suspected immediately, as he died only after 5 days of fever. The death occurred suddenly, and the spiritual Stefan did not even confess! So did the king have enemies? possibly individual put any powder in his hot wine? We do not know, in any case, the slayer of Ivan the Terrible who invaded the Republic of Poland, while Batory was at Gdańsk fighting the revolt of the Gdańsk people who demolished the monastery in Oliwa, burning the Cistercian library... Then receiving German reinforcements from Cologne, even a dense Scots infantry, counting besides in support of Denmark, and the Gdańsk ships besides attacked Elbląg! specified an extended rebellion Batory pacified with difficulty after many months thanks to Hungarian rots and our Hussaria, whose charge decided the conflict of Tczew, so there was a area in December 1577. Gdańsk, humiliated, apologized to the king and swore allegiance. He besides committed to pay 2 100 1000 PLN compensation, and an additional 20 1000 to rebuild the monastery in Oliwa. The tax, called “palm”, was to proceed to affect the Crown's treasure. The King has confirmed the privileges of the city...
Meanwhile, Ivan the Terrible invaded the Republic of Poland without declaring war, seized Inflanty all the way to the Sound. He won Dyneburg, but he couldn't go to Riga... He plundered the lands for it, had hundreds of friars beaten with sticks, hanged or drowned people in rivers, even mothers with children who were tied together... The weak crew of Pockets blew themselves up to avoid falling into Ivan's hands! To this day, Russia hides these facts, the Russians (even Solzhenitsyn!) tell the planet that Batory invaded the peaceful Moscow duchy! They besides hide the fact that the Moscows in 1570 brutally pacified the Novgorod the Great, who, after the Lublin union, dreamed of the power of the Jagillons, whose power did not mean either lawlessness or reparation...
The invasion of Ivan forced Poland and Lithuania to make a military effort that they had not made since Grunwald... The situation was so serious that in the autumn of 1578 the Polish-Lithuanian troops besides merged with the Swedes' regiments and specified a assembled coalition won a triumph under the reflected Kiesia, winning 24 guns, which were sent for Vilnius's defence. After many battles and campaigns, the war yet ended on 15 January 1582 under the Pskovek ten-year truce, but not all lands returned to the Republic. However, Bathors thwarted the plan of Moscow and Vienna, which aimed to demolish the Polish-Lithuanian union – Ivan was expected to take Lithuania and Habsburg – Poland! Victoria at Pskov saved Bator's kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, he was in our past the best of strangers, and he had large mir and he enjoyed respect, and sometimes he besides caused fear among the nobility the strictness of his regulations. He frequently reproved the nobility, “Professor your liberties, but do not make savors out of liberty!” What would he say to unbridled peers today? So he was black and accused of the king, he was accused of taking possession of treasures, while he was giving his own penny to the army, he was suspected of fleeing to the Seven-garden(?), and even of a coup d'état for the cessation of noble freedoms... In the meantime, he preferred to hunt in the woods under his favourite Grodne and possibly it lost him, only 10 years remained on the Polish throne... Let us conclude with this remembrance of Him, this humble epitaph of prose arranged, necessarily ignoring another events and political ambarases of his reign. The regulation of the kingdom of Poland was not...
Marek Baterovich (according to Kraszewski and Jasienica)
Editorial:
We encourage you to acquisition the book by Marek Baterowicz, published by our association - stories about the "war of Jaruzel"- It's coming in the wound.
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