RUSSIAN-FRENCH TRADE IN THE BALTIC SEA DURING THE SWEDISH BLOCKADE OF THE “NARVA NAVIGATION” IN THE 1570S; [РУССКО-ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ТОРГОВЛЯ НА БАЛТИКЕ В УСЛОВИЯХ ШВЕДСКОЙ БЛОКАДЫ «НАРВСКОГО ПЛАВАНИЯ» В 1570-Е ГОДЫ]

Abstract

This article examines several key subjects necessary to describe the history of Russian-French commerce in the 1570s.The first part deals briefly with the development of trade between the Russian state and the French kingdom before the conclusion of the Treaty of Stettin on December 13, 1570, which ended the Northern Seven Years' War between Denmark, Poland and Lübeck on the one hand and Sweden on the other.The second part analyzes the plans of the French crown to develop Baltic commerce in the first half of the 1570s.It also explains the influence of the Valois dynasty's political projects in northern Europe on the development of French trade traffic to the Russian Narva.The third part is devoted to the analysis of Swedish resistance to the “Narva navigation” in the second half of the 1570s, caused by the French side's rejection of matrimonial plans towards the Vasa dynasty.The conclusion summarizes the results of the study.It is emphasized that the successful blockade of the Russian Narva by the Swedish fleet and, as a result, the capture of this city by the Swedish army in the fall of 1581 forced the French negociants to move to the development of a new trade route with the Russian state through the White Sea. © 2024 Eotvos Lorand University Faculty of Arts, Russian Studies Center. All rights reserved.