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| Siege of Narva | |||||||||
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| Part of the Livonian War | |||||||||
 Siege of Narva by the Russians in 1558 by Boris Chorikov, 1836. | |||||||||
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| Teutonic Order | Tsardom of Russia | ||||||||
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| Focht Schnellenberg | Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi | ||||||||
The siege of Narva was the siege of the city of Narva (in modern-day eastern Estonia, then part of the State of the Teutonic Order) by the forces of the Tsardom of Russia from April through May 1558, during the Livonian War. [1] [2] After capturing the city in July 1558, Russian merchants were able to use the Narva area as a trading center and port to move goods from Pskov and Novgorod to the Baltic Sea. The tsardom of Russia controlled the city until 1581, when it was captured by Swedish forces under Pontus De La Gardie.
