Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te mea kua paopao ia i nga tono mo te rangimarie mai i ona hoariri, i kitea e Ivan the Terrible he waahi uaua i te 1579, i te wa i whakangaromia ai e te Crimean Khanate nga rohe o Muscovian me te tahu i Moscow (tirohia
Ko nga Pakanga Russo-Crimean), ko te waipuke me nga mate uruta kua tino pa ki te ohanga, Oprichnina i tino whakararu i te kawanatanga, i te mea kua hono te Grand Principality o Lithuania ki te Kingi o Poland (1385-1569) ka whiwhi i tetahi kaiarahi kaha, Stefan Batory, i tautokohia e te Ottoman Empire (1576). I whakautu a Stefan Batory me te raupapa o nga whakaekenga e toru ki Muscovy, e ngana ana ki te tapahi i te Basileia o Livonia mai i nga rohe o Muscovian. I roto i tona whakaeke tuatahi i roto i te 1579, ki te 22,000 tangata, riro ia Polotsk; i roto i te tuarua, i roto i te 1580, ki te 29,000-momo ope, tangohia e ia Velikie Luki, a i roto i te 1581 ki te 100,000-momo ope tīmata ia te Siege o Pskov. Ko Frederick II o Denmark me Norway i raru ki te haere tonu ki te whawhai ki a Muscovy kaore i rite ki Sweden me Poland. I whakaae ia ki a John III i te tau 1580 ka hoatu ki a ia nga taitara i Livonia. Ka roa taua pakanga mai i te tau 1577 ki te tau 1582. I mohio a Muscovy ki te mana Polish-Lithuanian o Ducatus Ultradunensis i te 1582. Whai muri i te matenga o Magnus von Lyffland i te 1583, ka whakaekehia e Polani ana rohe i roto i te Duchy o Courland ka whakatau a Frederick II ki te hoko i ana mana tuku iho. I tua atu i te moutere o Œsel, kua mutu a Denmark i te Baltic i te 1585. Mai i te tau 1598 ka wehea te Inflanty Voivodeship ki: