How the Mongols Destroyed the Rus Armies at the Battle of the Kalka River

Описание: May thirty-first, twelve twenty-three. According to the Novgorod First Chronicle, the most reliable contemporary account we have, only one in ten warriors who marched east into the steppe that spring would ever return home. Nine princes of Rus' lay dead. The flower of their military aristocracy—annihilated. And the victors? Chronicles record the terror in a single haunting phrase: "unknown people." No one knew where they came from. No one knew where they went. But in a single afternoon, they shattered the largest coalition army Kievan Rus' had ever assembled.


Sources:

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/event/Batt...
World History Encyclopedia: https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_o...
Cambridge History of Inner Asia (campaign details)