Russo-Crimean Wars - Incomplete List of Tatar Raids

Incomplete List of Tatar Raids

This list does not include raids into Poland-Lithuania (75 raids during 1474–1569) A longer list can be found in ru:Крымско-ногайские набеги на Русь. See also Crimean-Nogai Raids.

  • 1465: Crimea attacks the Great Horde to prevent it from raiding Russia and disrupting the northern trade
  • 1480: Great stand on the Ugra river

1507 and 1514: Raids led by Tatar nobles so the Khan would not officially break peace.

1521: Khan and 50,000 men cross the Oka at Kolomna and ravage outskirts of Moscow for 2 weeks

  • c1533: Abatis defense line about 100 km south of the Oka.

1533-47:(regency for Ivan IV) some 20 large raids on the frontiers.

1541: Crimean Khan crosses Oka on rafts under covering fire from Turkish guns.

1555,1562,1664,1565; Khan leads large armies into Muscovy.\

  • 1556-59: Russians and Zaporozhians raid the Black Sea coast four times

1564: Ryazan posad burned.

1571: Russo-Crimean War (1571) Moscow burned.

1572: Battle of Molodi, vital battle of the war. Turks stopped growing to the north. Then started to retreat.

1591: Raid reaches Moscow (this seems to contradict the next entry)

1591: Artillery stops raid at Kolomenskoy on the Bank Line

1592: Suburbs of Moscow burned while Russian troops were away fighting Swedes

1598: Crimeans stopped by Bank Line, withdraw and sue for peace

1614: Nogai raids within sight of Moscow. During the Time of Troubles so many captives were taken that the price of a slave at Kaffa dropped to fifteen or twenty gold pieces

1618: Nogais release 15,000 captives in peace treaty with Moscow.

1632: Force from Livny ambushed by Tatars and Janissaries(sic). 300 killed and the rest enslaved

1632: 20,000 Tatars raid south of lines because troops were shifted for Smolensk War

1633: 30,000 Tatars cross Abatis and Bank lines. Thousands of captives from Oka region. (the last deep raid into Muscovy )

1635: Many small war parties south of Ryazan

1637,41-43: Raids by Nogais and Crimean nobles without permission of Khan

1643: 600 Tatars and 200 Zaporozhian Cossacks(sic) raid near Kozlov. 19 killed, 262 captured.

1644: 20,000 Tatars raid southern Muscovy, 10,000 captives

1645: 6,000 captives. (It is claimed that the Turks encouraged these raids to obtain galley slaves for a war with Venice)

  • c1650: Belgorod Line pushes Russian forts 300 km south of the Abatis Line.
  • c1680: Izium Line: Russian forts within 150 kilometers of Black Sea.
  • 1687,89: Crimean campaigns: attempt to invade Crimea fails.

1691-92:Several thousand captives from near Izium Line

1769: Winter raid into New Serbia. Prisoners by the thousands

  • 1774: Crimea a Russian vassal
  • 1783: Crimea annexed by Russia.

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