Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars and inconclusive siege led to negotiations, which with the aid of papal legate Antonio Possevino ended in the peace of Jam Zapolski in which the Tsar renounced his claims to Livonia and Polotsk but conceded no core Russian territories. The peace lasted for a quarter of a century, until the Commonwealth forces invaded Russia in 1605. Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars The Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars (also known as Russo-Lithuanian Wars, or just either Muscovite Wars or Lithuanian Wars) were a series of wars between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, allied with the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After several defeats
A Hymn to God the Father Sin, Where I Begun"; without always crediting him as composer, or Donne as the author of the words. The poem starts out with a question that Donne asks from God that will He forgive his sins which he did even before his birth? Actually, Donne refers to the original sin which his ancestors Adam and Eve committed by eating the forbidden fruit, according to Christian theology. He then adds that if God has forgiven those sins he has not yet done, Donne has more sins to be forgiven. Then he seeks forgiveness for those sins wherein he tempted others to