Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - Heoi, i ngoikore te Tsardom na te Pakanga Livonian roa me te kore angitu ki te hononga o Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark, me Norway mo te uru atu ki te takutai o Baltic me te tauhokohoko moana. I taua wā anō, i haere tonu nga Tatars o te Crimean Khanate, te tangata anake i toe ki te Golden Horde, ki te whakaeke i te tonga o Russia. I roto i te kaha ki te whakahoki mai i nga khanates Volga, ka whakaekehia e nga Crimeans me o raatau hoa Ottoman te pokapū o Russia
I taea hoki e rātau te tahu i ētahi wāhanga o Moscow i te tau 1571. Engari i te tau e whai ake nei i tino hinga te ope whakaeke nui e nga Ruhia i te Pakanga o Molodi, ka whakakore tonu i te riri o te whakawhānui o te Ottoman<unk>Crimean ki Russia. Ko te raupatu pononga o Crimeans, Heoi, kihai i mutu tae noa ki te mutunga o te rau tau 17 ahakoa te hanganga o ngā rārangi whakau hou puta noa i te tonga o Russia, pērā i te Raina nui Abatis, tonu narrowed te rohe e wātea ana ki te whakaekenga.