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Name: Wars of Vasily II

Type: Event

Start: 1440 AD

End: 1446 AD

Parent: Russo-Kazan Wars

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Russian military campaign against the Khanate of Kazan by Vasily II.

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  • January 1446: Khan Maxmut took the strategic fortress of Nizhny Novgorod and invaded Muscovy.
  • January 1446: Vasily II of Moscow mustered an army and defeated the Tatars near Murom and Gorokhovets.
  • January 1440: Tatars devastated the outskirts of Moscow for 10 days and on their way back to Kazan burned Kolomna. They also took many captives.
  • January 1440: In 1439, a year after the khanate's foundation, the very first khan of Kazan, Ulugh Muhammad, advanced on Moscow with a large army. Vasily II of Moscow fled from his capital across the Volga River.

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