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The Treaty of Teusina, Tyavzin or Tyavzino ( fi, Täyssinän rauha), also known as the Eternal Peace with Sweden in
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, was concluded by Russian diplomats under the boyar Afanasiy Pushkin (an ancestor of the poet Aleksandr Pushkin) and ambassadors of the
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king at the village of ( fi, Täyssinä, sv, Teusina) in
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on 18 May 1595 to end the
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between the powers. The treaty revised the provisions of the Truce of Plussa of 1583 and restored to Russia all territory then ceded to Sweden except for
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.
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received most of Ingria, with the towns of
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,
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, Koporye and
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. In effect, the treaty restored the borders predating the
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. The Swedish-Russian border was delineated from the outstream of the Systerbäck river into the Gulf of Finland, over lakes
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, the settlement of Neiden and up to the Murman Sea. Russia had to renounce all claims on
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including
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, and Sweden's sovereignty over Estonia from 1561 was confirmed. Sweden regained control over Ingria by the
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in 1617, after the
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.


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List of treaties This list of treaties contains known agreements, pacts, peaces, and major contracts between states, armies, governments, and tribal groups. Before 1200 CE 1200–1299 1300–1399 1400–1499 1500–1599 1600–1699 1700–1799 ...


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*{{cite book, last=Perrie, first=Maureen, title=Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia. The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles, publisher=Cambridge University Press, year=2002, page=24, isbn=0-521-89101-9


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Text in Swedish with Finnish Translation
Teusina Teusina Teusina 1595 in Sweden 1595 in Russia 1595 treaties Russia–Sweden treaties