The Sarai raid (Russian: Рейд на Сарай) in 1480 was a joint campaign of a small Russian-Crimean detachment against the capital of the Great Horde. The campaign was caused by the fact that Akhmat Khan mobilized all his forces and sent them to Urga, leaving the capital defenseless. The destruction of the barn was the main reason for Akhmat's departure from Urga.[2]
| 1480 Sarai raid | |||||||||
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| Part of the Great Stand on the Ugra River | |||||||||
 Vasili Nozdorovaty in the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Grand Duchy of Moscow Crimean Khanate |
 Great Horde | ||||||||
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Vasili Nozdorovaty-Zvenigorodsky Nur Devlet | N/O | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | Almost the entire population | ||||||||
The Russians could have completely destroyed this city, but the Crimean khan asked them not to do this, and the Russians left with a large amount loot, the khan's wives and Lithuanian politicians.[3]
Reference
edit- ^ Terentyev 2022, p. 30.
- ^ Gumilev 2023, p. 315.
- ^ Karamzin 2020, pp. 429–430.
Bibliography
edit- Terentyev, M. (2022). История завоевания Средней Азии [The history of the conquest of Central Asia] (in Russian). Volume 1. ISBN 978-5-4481-1327-7.
- Gumilev, Lev (2023) [1992]. От Руси к России [For Rus' to Russia]. Эксклюзивная классика (revised ed.). Moscow: AST. ISBN 978-5-17-153845-3.
- Karamzin, Nikolay (2020) [1824]. История Государства Российского [History of the Russian state]. Азбука. ISBN 978-5-4484-4482-1.