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Siege of Kiev (1240)

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222: 737:) in Latin just after he visited Kiev in 1246, contains a brief passage mention the siege of Kiev that happened several years earlier. Although frequently cited by earlier historians, the accuracy of this account has been questioned, especially because the passage from the first redaction of Carpini's manuscript copies was substantially expanded in the second redaction, which breaks the narrative of the first, and partially contradicts it. 58: 229: 674:, written two centuries after the fact, the Mongol siege engines took ten weeks to break through Kiev's two sets of fortifications. Maiorov (2016) concluded that this version of events 'is entirely fictitious', made up in order 'to reconstruct the history of the struggle against the Tatars at a time when the 796:
While the first redaction text states that the Mongols "put the inhabitants to death", suggesting that the entire population was killed and there were no survivors, this is contradicted by the second-redaction statement that "the inhabitants are kept in complete servitude", meaning that at least some
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When we were journeying through that land we came across countless skulls and bones of dead men lying about on the ground. Kiev had been a very large and thickly populated town, but now it has been reduced to almost nothing, for there are at the present time scarce two hundred houses there and the
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Subduing this country they attacked Rus', where they made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men; and they laid siege of Kiev, the capital of Rus'; after they had besieged the city for a long time, they took it and put the inhabitants to death.
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Subduing this country they attacked Rus', where they made great havoc, destroying cities and fortresses and slaughtering men; and they laid siege of Kiev, the capital of Rus'; after they had besieged the city for a long time, they took it and put the inhabitants to death.
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state. Daniel of Galicia and Michael of Chernigov were the last two to make their trip and formally submit to the khan as their overlord, and be confirmed in their principalities. However, Michael refused to "purify himself by walking between two fires and to
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came near the city. Möngke was apparently taken by the splendor of Kiev and offered the city terms for surrender, but his envoys were killed. The Mongols chose to assault the city. Batu Khan destroyed the forces of the Rus vassals, the
600:, completed in the 1290s), the defenders of Kiev managed to capture a Mongol soldier named Tovrul', who provided them with the names of all enemy officers, suggesting that they acquired extensive knowledge of the army they were facing. 498:. The next day, as the Mongols commenced the final assault, the church's balcony collapsed under the weight of the people standing on it, crushing many. After the Mongols won the battle, they plundered Kiev. Most of the population was 455:(Halych-Volhynia, also known as Ruthenia), having been recently captured by Danylo Romanovych. The chief commander in Kiev was Voivode Dmytro, while Danylo was in Hungary at that time, seeking a military union to prevent invasion. 475:
Scholar Alexander Maiorov (2016) compared all the dates in the surviving records of the events, concluding that the siege of Kiev lasted just nine days, from 28 November to 6 December 1240. On 28 November, the Mongols set up
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Former Kievan grand prince Michael of Chernigov had been unsuccessfully seeking assistance in Hungary, Poland, and Galicia during his exile. But by 1243 he had accepted the fact that the Mongols had recognised
502:. Out of 50,000 inhabitants before the invasion, about 2,000 survived. Most of the city was burned and only six out of forty major buildings remained standing. Dmytro, however, was shown mercy for his bravery. 712:
A letter by a Hungarian bishop written between 1239 and 1242 provides indirect, circumstantial evidence of when the Mongols invaded, and that they probably waited until mid-November 1240 for the river
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After their victory at Kiev, the Mongols forced both Galicia and Volhynia to submit to Batu Khan's suzerainty, and they were free to advance westward into Hungary and
596:, and other manuscripts). This account 'gives the fullest and the most detailed description of the siege and the capture of Kiev'. According to the GVC (written in 574:
written after the events, although they vary widely in the details, contradict each other and have conflicting dates as to when it happened exactly. They include:
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When night fell the Mongols held their positions while the Kievans retreated to the central parts of the city. Many people crowded into the
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took place between 28 November and 6 December 1240, and resulted in a Mongol victory. It was a heavy morale and military blow to the
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as the new grand prince, and Michael returned to Chernigov. All the major reigning Rus' princes eventually made the journey to
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near one of the three gates of old Kiev where tree cover extended almost to the city walls. The Mongols then began a
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had to be left alive to be "kept in complete servitude". The added text thus seems likely to be an inauthentic
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The Hypatian Codex Part Two: The Galician–Volynian Chronicle. An annotated translation by George A. Perfecky
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Ostrowski, Donald (1993). "Why did the Metropolitan Move from Kiev to Vladimir in the Thirteenth Century".
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where a successor would be chosen. Soon after, the new Mongol regime began collecting tributes through a
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to freeze over in order to cross it with their heavy baggage carts, moving yurts and siege weapons.
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in Arabic and Persian just after 1300, contains a brief passage on "Prince Batu"'s capture of
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The next year, Batu Khan's army under the tactical command of the great Mongol general
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and the Mongols began their invasion in late 1237 by conquering the northeastern Rus'
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Going on from there, fighting as they went, the Tatars destroyed the whole of Rus'.
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Going on from there, fighting as they went, the Tatars destroyed the whole of Rus'.
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The Mongol envoys sent to Kiev to demand submission were executed by Grand Prince
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that lasted several days. On 6 December, Kiev's walls were breached, and
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reached Kiev (in November 1240). At the time, the city was ruled by the
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Imaginative portrayal of the 1240 Siege of Kiev in the 16th-century
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V. Minorksy – "The Alān Capital Magas and the Mongol Campaigns",
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The 1240 siege of Kiev has been described in nearly every
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does not contain an account of the 1240 siege of Kiev.
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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(1973). 1295:Galician-Volhynian Chronicle 1284:Galician–Volhynian Chronicle 1271:Giovanni da Pian del Carpine 803:Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv 727:Giovanni da Pian del Carpine 584:(GVC, as transmitted in the 581:Galician–Volhynian Chronicle 1487:Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia 817:(spring 1239 – autumn 1240) 27:Mongol siege of a Rus' city 1528: 952:by Stephen Turnbull, p. 81 901:Turnbull, Stephen (2003). 785: 764: 528:in Kiev and elsewhere, as 399: 145:Most civilians slaughtered 29: 1507:1240 in the Mongol Empire 1462:10.1525/9780520313606-009 923:Perfecky, George (1973). 883:Dowling, Timothy (2015). 751: 743: 735:Iohannes de Plano Carpini 666:(from Western Rus'), and 429:with their sights set on 297: 215: 202: 189: 172: 155: 111:50.4500000°N 30.5236111°E 72: 55: 47: 986:, pp. 154–155, 164. 887:. 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Sack of Kiev (1240)
Battle of Kiev (disambiguation)
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

Facial Chronicle
Kiev
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Batu Khan
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Kalka River
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Chernigov
Batu's raid in Ruthenia
Kiev
Mongols

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