The Battles of Wenden were a series of battles for control of the stronghold of Wenden, in present-day Latvia, fought during the Livonian War in 1577 and 1578. Magnus of Livonia besieged the town in A
Cēsis (Wenden) Castle today
Ivan IV of Russia
John III of Sweden
Stephen Báthory of Poland
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The Livonian War concerned the control of Old Livonia. The Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of the Dano-Norwegian Realm, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Battles of Wenden (1577–1578)
…The Battles of Wenden were a series of battles for control of the stronghold of Wenden (Cēsis, Kiesia, Võnnu), in present-day Latvia, fought during the Livonian War in 1577 and 1578. Magnus of Livonia besieged the town in August 1577, but was deposed and replaced by Russian forces under Tsar Ivan IV, who eventually…
Siege of Narva by the Russians in 1558, by Boris Chorikov, 1836
Russian atrocities in Livonia. Printed in Zeyttung published in Nuremberg in 1561.
Rakvere castle ruins, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia.
Russian atrocities in 1577.