Union of KÄ—dainiai

The Union of Kėdainiai (also Treaty of Kėdainiai Lithuanian Kedainiu sutartis, Polish Układ w Kiejdanach ) was on October 20, 1655 between the Lithuanian nobleman Janusz Radziwill and Boguslaw Radziwill and the representative of Sweden, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, closed contract.

The contract provided virtually the oppressed by the troops of the Russian Tsar Alexei in East Grand Duchy of Lithuania under the protectorate of the Kingdom of Sweden. In connection with the Treaty of Ujście in which the Polish voivode Krzysztof Opaliński and Andrzej Grudziński the Polish king John II Casimir betrayed and the area of the Polish crown the Swedish king Karl X Gustav gave up without a fight, the Union of Kėdainiai presented factually, the total surrender Poland - Lithuania before the Kingdom of Sweden dar.

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• In the Shadows of Poland and Russia: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid - 17th century, dissertation by Andrei Kotljarchuk, 2006, University of Stockholm ( English)

• Contract
• History ( Kėdainiai )
• Poland - Lithuania
• History of Sweden in the early modern period
• Second Northern War