Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I riro i te Grand Duchy o Moscow i raro i a Vasili III a Smolensk i te 1514, engari i ngaro ano i te 1611 i te Pakanga Polish-Muscovite o 1605-1618 na te Siege o Smolensk (1609-1611). I whakauruhia te rohe ki te Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth hei Smolensk Voivodeship i whakaarahia. I te rau tau 17, i ngana te Rus' i raro i te mana o Ruhia ki te kawe i te taone ki roto i to raatau whenua whanui, ahakoa te hinganga i te "
Smolensk War" (1632<unk>1634) te Tsardom o Russia i hopu i te taone nui i te 1654 i te wa i te tutu o nga Dnieper Cossacks i te Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648<unk>1657) i tino whakararu i te Commonwealth.