Vyhovsky, at the head of a small…
June 1659 CE
Vyhovsky, at the head of a small detachment, attacks Pozharsky's army early on the morning of June 29, 1659.
After a little skirmish, he starts to retreat, feigning a disorganized flight in the direction of his main forces.
The unsuspecting Pozharsky orders his army to pursue the enemy.
Once the enemy's army enters Sosnivka, the Cossacks fire three cannon shots to give the signal to the Tatars and counterattack with all the forces stationed at Sosnivka.
Having discovered the trap, Pozharsky orders retreat, but his heavy cavalry becomes bogged down in the soggy ground created from the flooding the night before.
At this moment the Tatars also advance from the eastern flank, and outright slaughter ensues.
Almost all troops perish, with few of them captured alive.
Among the captured are Prince Pozharsky himself, Prince Semen Petrovich Lvov, both Princes Buturlins, Prince Lyapunov, Prince Skuratov, Prince Kurakin and others.
A relative of the Great Liberator of Moscow from the Poles, Dmitry Pozharsky, Prince Semen Pozharsky is brought before the Khan of Crimea, Mehmed IV Giray.
Being forced to carry out acts of submissiveness, Pozharsky insults the Khan and spits in his face, for which act he is promptly beheaded by the Tatars, his severed head dispatched with one of the captives to Prince Trubetskoy's camp.