Słowa kluczowe: history of cartography, Renaissance cartography, atlas, Polish Renaissance literature, Jan Zamoyski, Stephen Báthory, Polish-Lithuanian Commomwealth, Russia, Polotsk, Livonian War, political propaganda in the 16th century, Atlas Księstwa Połockiego, history of printing, strategy, military operations in the 16th century, military cartography, small-scale maps, operational activities, war in the 16th century, military cartography, theoreticians of military science in the 16th century, itineraries, tactics, war in the 16th century, military cartography, renaissance theoreticians of military science, large-scale maps, city plans, military engineers, history of old-Polish military science, lands’ infantry soldier, political- -military writings in the 16th and 17th century