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 | | Russian boyars signed in 1610 a treaty of peace, recognising Ladislaus IV of Poland, son of Polish king Sigismund Vasa, as tzar (which was opposed by his father, however). |
 | | Polish king Wladyslaw IV, whose father and predecessor Sigismund III had been elected by Russian boyars as tsar of Muscovy during the Time of Troubles, renounced all claims to the title as a condition of the peace treaty. |
 | | In 1654 the Ukrainian leader, Bogdan Khmel'nitskiy (Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyy), offered to place Ukraine under the protection of the Muscovite tsar, Aleksey I. However, he underestimated the differences between the parliamentary system of Poland and the oppressive monarchy of the Tsars. |
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