The Swedes laid siege to Pskov, defended by the voivodes Morozov and Buturlin; the siege of the city was unsuccessful for the Swedes and curbed their claims.
New envoys were sent to the Turkish sultan—Pyotr Mansurov and the clerk Sampsonov—with the aim of persuading the sultan to go to war with Poland, and also with complaints about raids by the Azov Cossacks on Muscovite borderlands. The envoys were received with honor, all the more so because they showered gifts—sable furs and the like. To the complaints in Turkey they replied with complaints about the Don Cossacks. Unfortunately for the Muscovite envoys, a change of grand vizier occurred; they had to placate him and his associates, and the Russian envoys managed to leave Constantinople only after a 30-month stay, and then with the most indefinite reply—an обещание to send troops as soon as they returned from Persia, with which Turkey was at war at that time.
By decision of the Zemsky Sobor, an extraordinary tax was levied—the “fifth money,” first collected in 1614.