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Name: Wars of Vasily III

Type: Event

Start: 1507 AD

End: 1542 AD

Parent: Russo-Kazan Wars

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

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  • February 1538: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • February 1540: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • January 1507: In 1506, Moxammat Amin, a ruler of all occupied regions, decided to seek peace and pay homage to Vasily III of Russia, the successor of Ivan the Great. This marked a significant shift in power dynamics in the region, with the territory ultimately going to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • January 1511: In 1510, Grand Prince of Moscow Vasili III arrived in Pskov and ended the Pskov Republic and its autonomous rights.
  • January 1511: Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow by 1511.
  • January 1523: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • February 1523: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • January 1524: Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow by 1524.
  • January 1525: In 1524, Prince Ivan Belsky led the 150,000-strong Russian army against the Tatar capital. This campaign is described in detail by a foreign witness, Herberstein. Belsky's huge army spent 20 days encamped on an island opposite Kazan.
  • August 1530: Prince Belsky of Moscow returned to the walls of Kazan in July 1530.
  • January 1531: The Tatars sued for peace, promising to accept any khan appointed from Moscow. The Moscovites accepted the peace terms and left the occupied territories.
  • January 1534: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • February 1534: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • January 1538: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • January 1539: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • January 1540: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • February 1541: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • January 1542: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • February 1542: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • September 1521: End of the Crimean campaign against the Muscovites.
  • February 1539: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. After the raid the Kazans left the region.
  • January 1521: The Principality of Ryazan is acquired by Moscow.
  • January 1541: Kazan attack in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
  • January 1525: Russian Prince Ivan Belsky accepted the terms proposed by the Tatar envoys and returned to Moscow, evacuating the occupied territories in Kazan.

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    Selected Sources


  • Koshelev, A. (1904): The complete collection of Russian Chronicles, vol.13, Saint Petersburg (Russia)
  • Атлас 7 класс История России 16 - конец 17 века (Atlas, 7th grade, History of Russia, 16th - end of the 17th century.) , Дрофа Publisher (2015), Moscow (Russia), p. 2
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