Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Grand Duchy na Moscow karkashin Vasili III ya kama Smolensk a 1514, amma ya sake rasa shi a 1611 yayin Yakin Poland <unk> Muscovite na 1605 <unk> 1618 sakamakon Siege na Smolensk (1609 <unk> 1611). An haɗa yankin a cikin Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth a matsayin tashin tashin Smolensk Voivodeship. A cikin karni na 17, Rus 'a ƙarƙashin ikon Rasha ya yi ƙoƙari ya kawo birnin a cikin fadada jihar sake, kuma duk da shan kashi a cikin "Smolensk War
" (1632<unk>1634) Tsardom na Rasha ya kama garin a 1654 a lokacin da tawayen Dnieper Cossacks a cikin Khmelnytsky Rising (1648<unk>1657) ya shagaltar da Commonwealth.