Russo-Kazan Wars

Russo-Kazan Wars
; 1444 map of Eastern Europe	Principality of Moscow Khanate of Kazan Golden Horde Crimean Khanate Grand Duchy of Lithuania Novgorod Republic
	Principality of Moscow Khanate of Kazan Golden Horde Crimean Khanate Grand Duchy of Lithuania Novgorod Republic
Date	1437–1439, 1445; 1467–1469; 1486–1487; 1505–1507; 1552–1556
Location	Khanate of Kazan and Muscovy
Result	Russian victory
Territorial; changes	Khanate of Kazan conquered by the Tsardom of Russia
Belligerents
Grand Principality of Moscow (pre-1547); Tsardom of Russia (post-1547); Supported by:; Qasim Khanate; Pro-Moscow factions in Kazan	Khanate of Kazan; Supported by:; Crimean Khanate; Nogai Horde; Khanate of Bukhara; Anti-Moscow factions in Kazan
Commanders and leaders
Commanders Vasily II (POW)(1439–1445); Ivan III (1467–1506); Qasim Khan (1467–1469); Daniil Kholmsky (1467, 1487); Möxämmädämin (1484–1519); Ghabdellatif (1496–1502); Vasily Kholmsky (1505–1507); Fyodor Belsky (1506); Shahghali (1518–1521, 1546, 1551–1552); Vasili III (1521–1541); Canghali (1532–1535); Ivan the Terrible (1540–1552); Alexander Gorbatyi-Shuisky (1547–1552); Ivan Vyrodkov (1547–1552);	Commanders Ulugh Muhammad (1439–1445); Mäxmüd (1438–1466); Ibrahim (1467–1469, 1478); Ilham Ghali (1479–1487); Mamuq (1495–1496); Safa Giray (1524–1549); Yadegar Mokhammad (1552); Devlet I Giray (1551–1552);

The Russo-Kazan Wars were a series of short, intermittent wars fought between the Grand Principality of Moscow and the Khanate of Kazan between 1437 and 1556. Most of these were wars of succession in Kazan, in which Muscovy intervened on behalf of the dynastic interests of its main ally, the Crimean Khanate. For most of the period, neither side sought to conquer the other, until Ivan the Terrible decided to annex Kazan upon the successful 1552 siege, which was followed by a rebellion lasting until 1556.