1480 Sarai raid
| 1480 Sarai raid | |||||||||
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| Part of the Great Stand on the Ugra River | |||||||||
Vasili Nozdorovaty in the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (16th century) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Crimean Khanate Grand Duchy of Moscow | Great Horde | ||||||||
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Vasili Nozdorovaty-Zvenigorodsky Nur Devlet | N/O | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | Almost the entire population | ||||||||
The Sarai raid in 1480 was a joint campaign of a small Russian-Crimean detachment against the capital of the Great Horde. The campaign was caused by the fact that Akhmat Khan mobilized all his forces and sent them to Ugra, leaving the capital defenseless. The destruction of Sarai was the main reason for Akhmat's departure from Ugra.
The Russians could have completely destroyed this city, but the Crimean khan asked them not to do this, and the Russians left with a large amount loot, the khan's wives and Lithuanian politicians.