The Truce or Treaty of Yam-Zapolsky (Ям-Запольский) or Jam Zapolski, signed on 15 January 1582 between the

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and the

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, was one of the treaties that ended the

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. It followed the successful Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory, culminating in the siege of Pskov. The truce was concluded with help of

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Antonio Possevino and was signed for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stefan Batory and for Russia by

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, and established a ten-year truce. In the terms of the treaty, Russia renounced its claims to

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and

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but conceded no core Russian territories as Batory returned the territories his armies had been occupying (particularly, he gave up on the siege of Pskov and left the town of

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. The truce was extended for twenty years in 1600, when a

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to Moscow led by Lew Sapieha concluded negotiations with Tsar Boris Godunov. The truce was broken when the Poles invaded Russia in 1605. One of the principal negotiators on the Polish side was Krzysztof Warszewicki.

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