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Topic: Russo-Kazan Wars: Wars of Vasily III

Russo-Kazan Wars: Wars of Vasily III

Years: 1521 - 1541

A new massacre of Russian merchants and envoys residing in Kazan takes place in 1521.

Vasily III is so enraged that he forbids his subjects to visit the Kazan Fair again.

Instead, the famous Makariev Fair is inaugurated downstream from Nizhny Novgorod, an establishment which undermines the economical prosperity of Kazan, thus contributing to its eventual downfall.

"Remember that the people you are following didn’t know the end of their own story. So they were going forward day by day, pushed and jostled by circumstances, doing the best they could, but walking in the dark, essentially."

—Hilary Mantel, AP interview (2009)