Livonia nkhondo monga makhalidwe chinyezimiro cha makhalidwe a Ivan kwambiri.

Mwina, mu ulamuliro lalitali la Russian autocrat Ivan Vasilyevich, dzina Ivan m'khutu, sanali chochitika kuti athe bwino yofotokoza zabwino zonse ndi zotsika kuti mfumu anakumana moyo wake Livonia nkhondo. Njira yonse ya zaka twente-faifi pa nkhondo, kuyambira pa chiyambi chake ulemerero mapeto manyazi, anali mwachindunji chifukwa cha patsogolo pa zaka za misala, nsembe zimene mfumu moyo wake osati ndi umoyo wa dziko lake.

The Livonia nkhondo inayamba ndi zaka 28 zokha, achinyamata ndi mphamvu mfumu. The chifukwa boma pakuti anali woyamba wa sanali kusunga dongosolo Livonia mabacteria walemba ndi Russia mu 1554. Izi zinaphatikizapo kukana kunena mapangano aliyense ndi Sigismund II, ngongole akadzabweranso Tsiku St George kwa zaka zonse chapadera ndi chiwerengero cha kudzipereka ena. Kamodzi akhala chosemphana ndi chonamizira ofunda chifukwa chomwe nkhondo chidatengedwa.

Patapita akugonjetsa Kazan ndi Astrakhan, komanso mapeto a mtendere ndi Lithuania, mawonekedwe a achinyamata Ivan kupita ku dongosolo Livonia. pang'onopang'ono azingokhala wake zoonekeratu anapereka zifukwa kuganiza kuti Russia kupeza anthu m'dziko lake, umene amupatse mwayi kupeza unimpeded ku Nyanja Baltic. Livonia nkhondo, zimayambitsa liwuli lidalembedwa anali khalidwe geopolitical, inayamba mu 1558 mpaka 1561 anabweretsa Russian mfumu chigonjetso yekha. Narva ndi Dorpat anagwa pafupifupi popanda kukana, kuzinga Riga zinachititsa kuti yokonza panganolo pa vassalage a m'mayiko a Order Livonia ku Russia. Koma munthu wotopa yaing'ono ndewu, amene anali kulakwitsa koyamba yowononga zinachititsa kuti kumenyana ndi asilikali achifumu nkhondo nthawi yomweyo atatu limati amphamvu - Poland, Lithuania ndi Sweden.

Pa nkhondo ikupambana Livonia umatha, ndipo ayamba kale za alternating kupambana kapena kulephera asilikali. Pang'onopang'ono kusintha dziko Ivana Groznogo ayang'ana pozungulira kusakhulupirika kuyamba misa kupondereza. Ndi 1564, anafika lonse ngati kuti poyamba bwenzi wokhulupirika wa mfumu , Prince Kurbsky kuti achoke dziko. Pa nthawi yomweyo Lithuanians kuyamba kuzinga Polotsk, posachedwapa anagwidwa ndi asilikali Russian. King, kuyesera kuchita naye amasowa ndi pang'onopang'ono likumira kuphompho komwe misala 1565 inakhazikitsa oprichnina.

Odzipereka mu nkhondo yolimbana ndi kapolo iye yekha basi "mdani mkati," mfumu wawononga ankhondo ambiri luso, angaphe nambala yaikulu omumvera ake, kuwamana asilikali a reinforcements atsopano. Nkhondo nyengo imeneyi aulesi, Lithuanians pang'onopang'ono analanda linga a Russian, ndipo mu 1569 chifukwa cha mgwirizano ndi Poland, m'mayiko awiriwa amagwirizana mu chimodzi. Tsopano mdani waukulu, umene ayenera kusintha mu Livonia nkhondo, amakhala Rzeczpospolita.

Kumayambiriro 1570 a Ivan Grozny wasankha kutenga pofuna zikuluzikulu kupambana, ndipo precipitates Revel, imodzi analanda linga angapo. Koma mfumu sizikanatha ndikuganiza choncho kwakukuru monga kale, zaka zambiri makhalidwe oipa, kuledzera ndi mwadzidzidzi mmene alili anatenga mavuto ake, ndi khamu helm si chanzeru ndi mtsogoleri wolimba mtima wa asilikali, ndipo munthu ndi psyche anavulazidwa, zimasintha zochita zawo, ndipo alibe gawo chilungamo wamantha.

Kenako Russian ali anapambana yekha anadutsa pa chiyambi cha malo - anagwa Polotsk, Narva, Great Luka, pothetsa yaitali komanso yotopetsa kuzinga Pskov.

Mu zaka 1582-83 ndi Livonia nkhondo, zotsatira za zimene zakhala zokhumudwitsa kwambiri kwa Russian Tsar, akumaliza kusainira dziko. Pangano la plussa ndi chilazi Zampolsky dziko negated bwino onse a asilikali Russian. The Baltic Nyanja ndi kukhala maloto a Russia kuzindikira kuti pali mfumu yina m'nthawi wina.