Name: Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633)
Start: 1632-10-28
End: 1633-10-04
Location: Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633)

Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633) 1632

Siege of Smolensk (1632–1633): Smolensk-1632-1634

Image: В. Гондиус, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate. Wikidata lists more than one location for this battle; the first is shown.

Key facts

Date	28 October 1632 – 4 October 1633	Wikidata
Year	1632	Wikidata P580 (start time)
Era	Early modern (1500–1799)	derived from year
Location	Russia	Natural Earth (modern borders)
Continent	Europe	Natural Earth
War / conflict	Smolensk War	Wikidata P361
Participants	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Tsardom of Russia	Wikidata P710
Coordinates	54.7828, 32.0453	Wikidata P625

About the battle

The siege of Smolensk lasted almost a year between 1632 and 1633, when the Muscovite army besieged the Polish–Lithuanian city of Smolensk during the war named after that siege. Russian forces of over 25,000 under Mikhail Borisovich Shein began the siege of Smolensk on 28 October. The Polish garrison under Samuel Drucki-Sokoliński numbered about 3,000. The fortress held out for nearly a year, and in 1633 the newly elected Polish king Władysław IV organised a relief force. In a series of fierce engagements, Commonwealth forces gradually overran the Russian field fortifications, and by 4 October the siege had broken. Shein had become besieged in his camp, and began surrender negotiations in January 1634, capitulating around 1 March.

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