Yuri’, after the Mongols sack his capital,…

March 1238 CE

Yuri’, after the Mongols sack his capital, flees across the Volga northward to Yaroslavl', where he hastily musters an army.

He and his brothers then turn back toward Vladimir in hopes of relieving the city before the Mongols take it, but they are too late.

Yuri sends out a force of three thousand men under Dorozh to scout out the Mongols’ position; whereupon Dorozh returns saying that Yuri and his force are already surrounded.

As he tries to muster his forces, he is attacked by the Mongol force under Burundai and flees, but is overtaken on the Sit River and dies there along with his nephew, Prince Vsevolod of Yaroslavl'.

The battle marks the end of unified resistance to the Mongols and inaugurates two centuries of the Mongol domination of modern day-Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

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Yaroslavl' Yaroslavskaya Oblast Russia View →

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Batu Khan View → Güyük Khan View → Möngke Khan View → Yaroslav II View → Yuri II of Vladimir View →

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Slavs, East View → Rus' people View → Pskov, Principality of (Pskov Republic) View → Kievan Rus', or Kiev, Great Principality of View → Chernigov (Chernihiv), Principality of View → Smolensk, Principality of View → Turov and Pinsk, Principality of View → Mongols View → Novgorod Republic View → Ryazan, Principality of View → Vladimir-Suzdal, Great Principality of View → Galicia–Volhynia, Principality of View → Mongol Empire View →

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Mongol Conquests View → Mongol Invasion of Europe View → Mongol Invasions of Rus' View → Sit River, Battle of the View →

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