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.