Union of Kėdainiai
The Union of Kėdainiai (also Treaty of Kėdainiai , Lithuanian Kėdainių sutartis , Polish Układ w Kiejdanach ) was a treaty concluded on October 20, 1655 between the Lithuanian nobles Janusz Radziwiłł and Bogusław Radziwiłł and the representative of Sweden, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie .
In fact, the treaty placed the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , oppressed in the east by the troops of Russian Tsar Alexei, under the protectorate of the Kingdom of Sweden . In connection with the Treaty of Ujście , in which the Polish voivodes Krzysztof Opaliński and Andrzej Grudziński betrayed the Polish king John II Casimir and handed over the territory of the Polish crown to the Swedish king Karl X Gustav without a fight, the Union of Kėdainiai effectively provided the total surrender to Poland -Lithuania before the Kingdom of Sweden.
Web links
- 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 Andrej Kotljarchuk, 2006, Stockholm University (English)