WI: Polish-Lithuanian union with Russia in 1600’s
Poland wins the Polish-Muscovite war and Władysław IV Vasa, with the help of the pro-polish faction Russia, is made Czar in 1610. No popular uprisings develop and Władysław’s father, Polish King Sigismund III, does not try to take the throne from himself or push Catholicism. By the time of his father’s death, in 1632, Władysław is well established in Russia and now inherits the titles of King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and maybe even a claim to the Swedish throne.
How would this effect Russian, Swedish and Polish history? What effect would it have on the Ottoman-Polish wars and the Thirty years war? On the death of Władysław would the union disintegrate?
Poland wins the Polish-Muscovite war and Władysław IV Vasa, with the help of the pro-polish faction Russia, is made Czar in 1610. No popular uprisings develop and Władysław’s father, Polish King Sigismund III, does not try to take the throne from himself or push Catholicism. By the time of his father’s death, in 1632, Władysław is well established in Russia and now inherits the titles of King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and maybe even a claim to the Swedish throne.
How would this effect Russian, Swedish and Polish history? What effect would it have on the Ottoman-Polish wars and the Thirty years war? On the death of Władysław would the union disintegrate?