The siege of the Stephen

Bathory
 Stephen Bathory
was a Hungarian noble
Prince of Transilvania
(1571–1586), then
(1576–1586) and Grand
Duke of Lithuania
(1576–1586). He was a
member of the Somlyó
branch of the noble
Hungarian Batory
Family. Many historians
consider him to be one
of the greatest of the
elected Kings of Poland.
Early in 1581 King Stephen Bathory rejected a proposal to the world of
Tsar Ivan IV and began to prepare the next and most ambitious
campaign against Russia. King and with him some of the magistrates
have decided to conquer the Pskov, which had been fixed all the big
enemy forces and then attack on Novgorod. The Army, which attacked
Pskov, there were 47,000 people, and its combat strength consisted of
15,000 cavalry and 12,000 infantry.
BUT
 not so easy to
conquer Pskov,
because he has a
strong system of
fortifications,
which included
stone fortress
walls (thickness of
4-6 meters and a
height of 6,5), Big
City, Medium City,
Dovmont city and
the Kremlin.
 And even harder to participate in the attack of
Pskov, which controls the Russian army
commander Prince Ivan Shujsky and Prince Vasiliy
Skopin-Shujsky
 After a two-day shelling of Pskov, the Polish army attacked the city
for the first time on September 8. The Russiansrepelled the assault,
which resulted in heavy losses for the Poles. Attempts to blow up the
fortifications with mines and a general attack on November 2 turned
out to be fruitless, as well. In November, some of Polish forces
attacked the Pskovo-Pechorsky monastery, but to no avail.
The Pskovian garnison undertook frequent sallies (approximately 46),
mostly in November and December of 1581. There were 31 attacks by
Polish troops during the five month siege. The siege dragged on, with
neither side able to end it; in the meantime diplomatic negotiations, in
which Vatican became involved, led to the end of hostilities.
 Stephen Bathory and
Ivan IV finally signed
the Treaty jf Jam
Zapolski on January
15; Russia renounced
its claims to
Livoniaand Polotsk
and in exchange the
Commonwealth
returned Russian
territories its armies
had captured. On
February 4 of 1582,
the last detachments
of the Polish-
Lithuanian army left
the outskirts of Pskov.