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, for concluding a peace treaty, he entered the Russian service and won the battle on Oka against the Tatars on 1 August 1572. Later he served in the Danish and Polish armies. In 1586 Farensbach gained the rank a senator of the Polish crown granted by

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, whom he had assisted in gaining the throne of Poland. As field marshal of Poland he fought against the

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, where he was killed in the attack on the castle of

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on 17 May 1602.

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