This is a list of armed conflicts between Poland and Russia.

This list includes their predecessor states: Piast Poland, the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Kievan Rus', the Principality of Moscow, the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union:

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<nowiki>*</nowiki><small>e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Poland or Russia in which the other intervened, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.</small>

Piast Poland versus Kievan Rus'

Crown of the Kingdom of Poland versus Principality of Moscow

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"

! width="10%" | Date

! width="30%" | Conflict

! width="20%" | Poland and allies

! width="20%" | Moscow and allies

! width="20%" | Result

|-valign="top"

| 1507–1508

| Lithuanian-Muscovite War

| 20px Grand Duchy of Lithuania<br>20px Kingdom of Poland

| 20px Principality of Moscow

| bgcolor="#C0E0FF" | Disputed

  • Principality of Moscow gives Liubech and six border counties to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  • Lithuania renounces claims to lost territories as a result Lithuanian-Muscovite War (1500-1503)

|- valign="top"

| 1512–1522

| Lithuanian–Muscovite War

| 20px Grand Duchy of Lithuania<br/>20px Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

| 20px Grand Principality of Moscow

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Muscovite victory

  • Muscovy Captures Smolensk

|-valign="top"

| 1534–1537

| Lithuanian-Muscovite War

| 20px Grand Duchy of Lithuania<br>20px Crown of the Kingdom of Poland

| 20px Principality of Moscow

| bgcolor="#C0E0FF" | Inconclusive

  • Grand Duchy of Lithuania gains Gomel
  • Principality of Moscow gains Sebezh and Zawołocze

|}

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth versus Tsarist Russia

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"

! width="10%" | Date

! width="30%" | Conflict

! width="20%" | Poland–Lithuania and allies

! width="20%" | Russia and allies

! width="20%" | Result

|- valign="top"

| 1561–1570

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| <br /> Crown of the Kingdom of Poland<br />From 1569:<br />

| Tsardom of Russia (or Muscovy)

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Russian (Muscovite) victory

|- valign="top"

| 1577–1582

| Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory

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22px Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth<br/>22px Principality of Transylvania

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| bgcolor="#CC79A7" | Polish–Lithuanian victory

  • Livonia, Courland and Semigallia to Poland–Lithuania.

|- valign="top"

| 1605

| 1st Dimitriad

|False Dmitry 1

| Tsardom of Russia

Russian supporters

| bgcolor="#CC79A7" | Victory of False Dmitry 1

|-valign="top"

| 1606

| Moscow uprising

| False Dmitry 1

| Tsardom of Russia

Russian supporters

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Victory of Shuisky's coalition

|- valign="top"

| 1607–1609

| 2nd Dimitriad

| False Dmitry 2

| Tsardom of Russia

Russian supporters

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Government victory

|- valign="top"

| 1609–1618

| Polish–Muscovite War

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| bgcolor="#CC79A7" | Polish–Lithuanian victory

  • Truce of Deulino
  • Poland–Lithuania gains Severia, Chernihiv and Smolensk

|- valign="top"

| Autumn 1632 – Spring 1634

| Smolensk War

| <br /> Zaporozhian Cossacks

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| bgcolor="#CC79A7" | Polish–Lithuanian victory

  • Treaty of Polyanovka
  • Russian failure to retake Smolensk.
  • Russia receives Serpeysk

|- valign="top"

| 1654–1667

| Russo-Polish War

| Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth<br/>Crimean Khanate<br/>Cossack Hetmanate (1658–1659, 1660–1667 in Right-bank Ukraine)<br/>Duchy of Prussia (1654–1656)

| Tsardom of Russia<br/>Cossack Hetmanate

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Russian victory

  • Truce of Andrusovo
  • Russia gains control of left-bank Ukraine, Kiev and Smolensk.

|- valign="top"

| 18 May – 27 July 1792

| Polish–Russian War of 1792

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| <br /> Targowica Confederates

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Russian victory

  • Second Partition of Poland

|- valign="top"

| 24 March – 16 November 1794

| Kościuszko Uprising

| Poland–Lithuania

| Russian Empire<br> Kingdom of Prussia<br> (Habsburg Monarchy)<br> Duchy of Courland

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Russo-Prussian victory

  • Dissolution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Third Partition of Poland

|}

Polish states and rebels versus Russian Empire

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! width="10%" | Date

! width="30%" | Conflict

! width="20%" | Polish states and allies

! width="20%" | Russia and allies

! width="20%" | Result

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|9 October 1806 – 9 July 1807

|War of the Fourth Coalition

  • Siege of Danzig (1807)

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France

  • Confederation of the Rhine
  • Etruria
  • Holland
  • Italy
  • Naples
  • Saxony <br>
  • Polish Legions
  • Swiss Confederation

Spain

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Polish rebels

|Fourth Coalition:

  • Prussia
  • Saxony<br>
  • Sweden
  • Sicily
  • Septinsular Republic<br>

| bgcolor="#CC79A7" | French victory

  • Treaties of Tilsit
  • Treaty of Posen
  • Prussia loses over half of its territory
  • Creation of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Westphalia

|- valign="top"

| 24 June – 24 December 1812

| French invasion of Russia, pitched by Napoleon as the "Second Polish War"

| French Empire<br/>

Duchy of Warsaw<br/>

Italy<br/>

Naples<br/>

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Switzerland <br>

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French allies:<br/><br/>

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| bgcolor="#56B4E9" |

  • Escalation of the conflict into the Sixth Coalition

|- valign="top"

| 24 December 1812 – 30 May 1814

| War of the Sixth Coalition

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  • Naples
  • Confederation of the Rhine

Denmark–Norway (1813–1814)

| Original coalition

  • Spain
  • Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Sardinia

After the Armistice of Pläswitz

After the Battle of Leipzig

  • Baden

After 20 November 1813

Netherlands

After January 1814

Denmark

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Coalition victory

  • Creation of Congress Poland

|- valign="top"

| 29 November 1830 – 21 October 1831

| November Uprising

| National Government

| Russian Empire

  • Congress Poland
  • Polish Loyalists

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Russian victory

|- valign="top"

| 22 January 1863 – 18 June 1864/1865

| January Uprising

| Polish National Government<br>

  • Rebels from the pre-partition lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Garibaldi Legion<br>Foreign volunteers:<br>

  • French volunteers
  • British volunteers
  • Hungarian volunteers

Supported by:<br> Land and Liberty<br> Dzyalynsky Committee

| Russian Empire

  • 15px Warsaw
  • 15px Vilna
  • 15px Kiev

Supported by:<br>

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Russian victory

|- valign="top"

|1905–1907

| Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland

| Polish revolutionaries

  • Worker militias
  • Polish Socialist Party
  • Combat Organization
  • SDKPiL
  • Bund
  • Anarchists

| Imperial Government

  • Russian Army
  • Okhrana

Polish reactionaries

  • National-Democratic Party
  • Stronnictwo Polityki Realnej (Real Politics Party)

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Imperial Government victory

|}

Second Polish Republic versus Soviet Union

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"

! width="10%" | Date

! width="30%" | Conflict

! width="20%" | Poland and allies

! width="20%" | Soviet Union and allies

! width="20%" | Result

|- valign="top"

| 1918/1919 – 18 March 1921

| Polish–Soviet War

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| bgcolor="#CC79A7" |

  • Poland retained control of modern-day Western Ukraine and Western Belarus (Kresy in interwar Poland)
  • Soviet forces retained control of modern-day Eastern Ukraine and Eastern Belarus

|- valign="top"

| 17 September – 6 October 1939

| Soviet invasion of Poland

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| <br>Co-belligerent:<br> Germany

| bgcolor="#56B4E9" | Soviet victory

  • Territory of Eastern Poland (Kresy) annexed by the Soviet Union

|- valign="top"

|}

See also

  • Hungarian Revolution of 1848
  • Baikal Insurrection
  • War of the Fourth Coalition
  • Civil war in Poland (1704–1706)
  • War of the Polish Succession
  • Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953)
  • Polish October
  • Martial law in Poland
  • List of wars and battles involving Galicia–Volhynia
  • List of wars involving the Principality of Moscow
  • – in most of which Kingdom of Poland was allied with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  • Russo-Swedish Wars

Notes

References

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