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“RUSSIAN ARMAGEDDON – THE SHELON RIVER BATTLE” 1990-1993, oil on canvas, golden foil, 195×290 cm. Martha the Mayoress at the Destruction of the Novgorod Veche, by Klavdiy Lebedev Ivan launches attack on Novgorod, wins victory at Shelon River on 14 July – When Aleksandr of Yaroslavl dies, Ivan annexes the principality. In May, after making […]

A battle at the river Neva in north-western Russia, fought on 15 July 1240. The antecedents and details of this battle are largely hypothetical because they are known only from inadequate accounts in Russian sources. It has been supposed that the battle was connected with the Swedish military leader Birger Magnusson (d. 1266). The Novgorod […]

Sergey Prisekin, The Battle of Kulikovo, 1980, oil on canvas Several milestones mark the decline of nomad predominance: the battle of Kulikovo Pole in 1380 when the Moscovites first defeated the Mongols of the Golden Horde, although it was not until the fall of Kazan to the troops of Ivan IV in 1552 that the […]