confederation of local cities and german knights who did not want to give russia access to the baltices were desecrated , the cup of patience was filled with the refusal of the livonians to pay russia the promised tribute, 60,000 talers, then ivan the terrible sent a large army to livonia on a terrifying campaign, it met almost no resistance, it seemed... the war was over, but then the livonian confederation collapsed, its the lands came under the control of lithuania, sweden and denmark and russia found itself in a state of war with sweden and lithuania, which had well -trained armies, began to suffer defeats, lost everything that it had conquered, including lands on the border with the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, a state that arose after the unification of poland and lithuania. the northwestern russian regions were depopulated, and under the terms of the peace treaties, russia was forced to abandon livonia. belarusian lands and the southern coast of the gulf of finland. this territory was returned under the reign of ivan the terrible’s son, fyodor ioannovich. on january 22, 1869