the truce of andrusovo was signed.ded the russian-polish war, which lasted 13 years. as a result, russia has achieved a lot. the polish-lithuanian commonwealth ceded to us smolensk, some lands of the southern pskov region, and the entire left-bank ukraine. russia abandoned its conquests in the grand duchy of lithuania and returned polotsk, vitebsk and boris glebsk. it took 2 years to withdraw the russian garrison from kiev and transfer the city to poland, but russia succeeded. first hold kiev, and then buy it from the poles for 146,000 rubles. the terms were beneficial to both parties. russia significantly expanded the territory, and the polish -lithuanian commonwealth was able to return the most important lands for it. in russian historiography , the truce of andrusovo is traditionally viewed as an important step by our state towards the unification of three east slavic peoples: russian, belarusian and ukrainian. on february 9, 1897 , the first and only general population census of the russian empire started; it was p