Draft:Edigu's campaign to Moscow
| Siege of Moscow, 1408 | |||||||
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| Part of the Mongol-Tatar yoke | |||||||
 Apollinary Vasnetsov, reconstruction of the Kremlin under Dmitry Donskoy. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Golden Horde | Principality of Moscow | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Edigu (Edigey) Four unnamed princes | Vasily I Dmitrievich | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 200,000 men[1] | Unknown | ||||||
The Invasion of Edigu was an invasion of the Principality of Moscow by the troops of the Golden Horde temnik Edigu in 1408. Its culmination was a three-week siege of the white-stone Moscow Kremlin.
References
[edit]- ^ According to Spanish traveler Ruy González de Clavijo. See: Grekov & Yakubovsky 1950, ch. 3. Archived 25 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
Literature
[edit]- Grekov, B. D.; Yakubovsky, A. Yu. (1950) [1937]. Золотая Орда и её падение [The Golden Horde and its fall]. Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 12 July 2008.