Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya yi watsi da shawarwarin zaman lafiya daga abokan gabansa, Ivan the Terrible ya sami kansa cikin mawuyacin hali a shekara ta 1579, lokacin da Khanate na Crimea ya lalata yankunan Muscovian kuma ya ƙone Moscow (duba Yaƙe-yaƙe na Russo-Crimean
), fari da annoba sun yi mummunan tasiri ga tattalin arzikin, Oprichnina ya rushe gwamnati, yayin da Grand Principality na Lithuania ya haɗu da Masarautar Poland (1385<unk>1569) kuma ya sami shugaba mai ƙarfi, Stefan Batory, wanda Ottoman Empire ya goyi bayansa (1576). Stefan Batory ya amsa tare da jerin hare-hare uku a kan Muscovy, yana ƙoƙarin yanke Masarautar Livonia daga yankunan Muscovian. A lokacin farmakinsa na farko a 1579, tare da mutane 22,000, ya sake karɓar Polotsk; a lokacin na biyu, a 1580, tare da rundunar soja 29,000, ya ɗauki Velikie Luki, kuma a 1581 tare da rundunar soja 100,000 ya fara Siege na Pskov. Frederick II na Denmark da Norway ya sami matsala ci gaba da yaƙi da Muscovy sabanin Sweden da Poland. Ya zo yarjejeniya tare da John III a 1580 yana ba shi taken a Livonia. Wannan yaƙin zai kasance daga shekara ta 1577 zuwa 1582. Muscovy ya yarda da ikon Poland-Lithuania na Ducatus Ultradunensis kawai a cikin 1582. Bayan Magnus von Lyffland ya mutu a shekara ta 1583, Poland ta mamaye yankunansa a cikin Duchy na Courland kuma Frederick II ya yanke shawarar sayar da haƙƙoƙin gadonsa. Ban da tsibirin Œsel, Denmark ta fita daga Baltic a shekara ta 1585. Tun daga 1598 Inflanty Voivodeship ya kasu kashi biyu: