1606 A rebellion breaks out under Vasili Shuiski. Dmitri is killed. Shuiski is proclaimed emperor.
1608 A second false Dmitri defeats Shuiski’s army near Volkhov, but fails in an attack on the Troitsa monastery, near Moscow. He is murdered by one of his followers in 1610.
1609 The Poles invade Russia and lay siege to Smolensk.
1610 Shuiski is defeated at Klushino and Wladislaw, son of the Polish king, is crowned czar.
1611 Revolt of the patriots led by Minin and Prince Pojarski.
1612 The Poles are driven out of Moscow.
1613 Michael Romanov is chosen czar.
1617 Wladislaw appears with an army under the walls of Moscow, but is repulsed. The Treaty of Stolbovna is brought about by the mediation of England and Holland: the Russians give up Kexholm, Karelia and Ingria to Sweden, and receive in return Novgorod, which was lost during the Troublous Period.
1618 Wladislaw consents to abandon his claim to the Russian throne, the czar gives up his claims to Livonia, Tchernigov and Smolensk, and an armistice is concluded for fourteen years.
1619 Philarete, the father of Czar Michael, comes back from the Polish captivity, is elected patriarch, and becomes his son’s associate in the government of the country.