Baturyn is mercilessly sacked and razed by…

November 1708 CE

Baturyn is mercilessly sacked and razed by the Russian army of Menshikov on November 13, 1708, and all of its inhabitants are slaughtered.

Dmytro Chechel, the commanding officer of the Baturin garrison, is broken at the wheel.

Historian Serhiy Pavlenko estimates that six thousand to seventy-five hundred civilians and five thousand to sixty-five hundred military personnel were murdered.

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Baturin > Baturyn Chernihivs'ka Oblast Ukraine View →

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Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt View → Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov View → Augustus II the Strong View → Charles XII of Sweden View → Ivan Mazepa View →

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Cossacks, Zaporozhian View → Sweden, (second) Kingdom of View → Russia, Tsardom of View → Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations) View → Kalmyk people View → Cossack Hetmanate View → Cossack Hetmanate View →

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Northern War, Great View → Western Architecture: 1708 to 1720 View → Lesnaya, Battle of View →

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Weapons View →

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