Abstract
The article is based on the documents of the Siberian Department (Sibirsky prikaz) from the Russian State Archives of Ancient Acts dealing with the problem of determining the legal status of Lithuanian, German and Jewish prisoners after the Russian-Polish (Smolensk) War of 1632–1634 and the signing of the Polyanovsky peace treaty with Poland. The documents show that captive foreigners, including Jews, were allowed to remain permanently in Russia without obligatory conversion to Christianity.
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