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Kulikovo Field, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
KULIKOVO FIELD, BATTLE OF On September 8, 1380, Rus forces led by Grand Prince...Alan, Circassian, Genoese, and Rus) army led by the Emir Mamai on Kulikovo Pole (Snipe's Field) at the Nepryadva River, a tributary of the Don...
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battle of Kulikovo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
battle of Kulikovo , 1380, victory of Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow over Khan Mamai of the Golden Horde . The battle was fought on a plain...
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Zadonshchina
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...the historically important Battle of Kulikovo Field (1380). Written some years after...response to it, treating the victory at Kulikovo as revenge for the defeat of Igor at...of the Russian-Tatar Battle on the Kulikovo Field. The Hague: Mouton. Zenkovsky...
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Donskoy, Dmitry Ivanovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...his victory over the armies of Emir Mamai at the Battle of Kulikovo Field near the Don River (September 8,1380). He is remembered...combined armies of Mamai clashed with Dmitry Donskoy's army on Kulikovo field between the Don River and a tributary called the Nepryadva...
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Belarus and Belarusians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...divide between the Nieman and Dnieper watersheds. The Orthodox Lithuanian prince Andrei of Polotsk (d. 1399) fought at Kulikovo against Mamai in 1380. The 1385 Polish-Lithuanian dynastic Union of Krevo (in western Belarus) privileged nobles who converted...
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Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...family history as an allegory of Russia's eventual spiritual resurrection; the cycle Na pole Kulikovom (On the field of kulikovo, 1908), celebrates Russia's victory in 1380 over the Mongol Tatars. Yet, despite the spiritual optimism of both works...
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Cathedral of the Archangel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...the warrior Archangel Mikhail, keeper of the gates of heaven. His icon was commissioned to celebrate the Russian victory at Kulikovo Pole in 1380. The cycle celebrates Moscow's rulers as successors to the kings of Israel, as God's representatives fighting...
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Military Intelligence
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...had three basic means of learning about their foes: spies, prisoners of war, and reconnaissance. Thus, at the Battle of Kulikovo (1381) Prince Dmitry Donskoy dispatched a reliable diplomat to the enemy's camp to study the latter's intentions, questioned...
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Sergius, St.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...was Dmitry's confessor. Sergius is most famous as intercessor for Dmitry's Russian army that defeated the Mongols on Kulikovo Field near the Don River in 1380. It was the first Russian victory over the Mongols, and Sergius's intercession was taken...
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...longing for the Russian past and for a vital connection between the intelligentsia and the people. In "Russia" and "On Kulikovo Field" (both 1908), he searched for a way to bring national history to bear on the present. Despite his feelings of personal...
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