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In this chart each nation or group such as
cossacks or Tatar hordes is color coded. They are cross referenced - that is on
the cossack line they will be shown fighting Poland and on the Poland line they
will be shown fighting cossacks. Each group is shown down the side and each
year appears across the top. By comparing colors one can easily determine who
was fighting whom each year. The point of these graphs is to emphasize that in
many years the conflicts were multi-sided and conducted in multiple theaters of
war. The century began with the reign of Tsar Boris Gudunov and then the
"Time of Troubles". Then in the years around 1660 came the struggle
over Ukraine and the "Smolensk War". By century's end Russia was
fighting only the Ottoman Sultan and Khan of Crimea.
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