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#Dmitry Donskoy
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People · Golden Horde
Tokhtamysh: The Khan Who Burned Moscow and Fought Timur
Tokhtamysh reunited the Golden Horde, burned Moscow in 1382 and fought his former patron Timur. What the Russian, Persian and Arabic sources say.
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Religion & Belief · Grand Principality of Moscow
Sergius of Radonezh: The Monk Behind Moscow's Rise
St Sergius of Radonezh (died 1392), founder of the Trinity monastery near Moscow: what his Life says, his role in politics, and what is later legend.
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War & Warriors · Grand Principality of Moscow
The Battle of Kulikovo (1380): Dmitry Donskoy, Mamai and the Myth of Liberation
The Battle of Kulikovo on 8 September 1380: who fought, how many, what the earliest sources say, and why the victory did not end the Tatar yoke.