Russo-Lithuanian War Swedish stage Báthory's campaign The Battle of Nevel was fought during the Livonian War between the Kingdom of Poland and the Tsardom of Russia on August 19, 1562.

A bigger Russian detachment led by Andrey Kurbsky could not defeat the retreating Polish detachment under the command of Stanisław Leśniowolski.

Modern Polish researches estimating the number of Russians as 25,000.

[4] He also considers that the battle was massively exaggerated for political reasons in the Polish-Lithuanian chronicles.

In modern historiography, the assessment of events is interpreted in different ways, for example, Alexander Filyushkin (2012) and Vitaly Penskoi [ru] (2018) believe that the battle ended in a draw.