The Russian famine of 1601–1603, Russia's worst famine in terms of proportional effect on the population, killed perhaps two million people: about 30% of the Russian people.The famine compounded the Time of Troubles (1598–1613), when the Tsardom of Russia was unsettled politically and later invaded (1605–1618) by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Places. British Isles, an archipelago comprising Great Britain, Ireland and many other smaller islands; Roman Britain, a Roman province corresponding roughly to modern-day England and Wales; Historical predecessors to the present-day United Kingdom: Kingdom of Great Britain (1707 to 1801); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801 to 1922); Britain (place name)

生涯. 天文15年（1546年）稲葉良通（一鉄）の次男（正室の子であったため嫡男）として生まれる。 はじめ父と共に美濃国 斎藤氏に仕えていたが、永禄10年（1567年）に織田信長の侵攻軍の前に降伏した。 その後は父と共に、信長の命に従って各地を転戦した。天正7年（1579年）に家 …