Qualla: Battle of the Sit River https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/6/f/battle-of-the-sit-river-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of the Sit River https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river Battle of the Sit River: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river/ Photo credit Vasily Vereshchagin, Public domain. The scout Dorozh returned with the worst possible report: the army was already surrounded. Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir had sent 3,000 men ahead to locate the Mongol forces, and the answer came back as a death sentence. It was March 4, 1238, somewhere along the Sit River in what is now Tver Oblast, and the prince who had fled the burning ruins of his own capital was about to learn that there was nowhere left to run. The battle that followed lasted hours at most. Its consequences lasted two hundred years.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/6/f/battle-of-the-sit-river-wp/uf6f-battle-of-the-sit-river-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of the Sit River: A Capital in Flames https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river/ Photo credit Vasily Vereshchagin, Public domain. The Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' had been swift and catastrophic. Batu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, led his forces westward through the Russian principalities in the winter of 1237-1238, exploiting the frozen rivers as highways for his cavalry. Vladimir, the capital of the p...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/6/f/battle-of-the-sit-river-wp/uf6f-battle-of-the-sit-river-a-capital-in-flames.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of the Sit River: Surrounded on the Sit https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river/ Photo credit Vasily Vereshchagin, Public domain. Yuri's army encamped along the Sit River, a modest waterway in the marshlands of northern Tver Oblast. The location was poor for defense -- the terrain offered no natural strongpoint, and the forces were spread thin. When the Mongol detachment under the commander Burundai struck,...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/6/f/battle-of-the-sit-river-wp/uf6f-battle-of-the-sit-river-surrounded-on-the-sit.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of the Sit River: The Weight of Two Centuries https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river/ Photo credit Vasily Vereshchagin, Public domain. The destruction on the Sit River ended unified Russian resistance to the Mongol invasion. In the years that followed, the Russian principalities submitted to the authority of the Golden Horde. Princes traveled to the Horde's capital at Sarai to receive permission to rule their ow...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/6/f/battle-of-the-sit-river-wp/uf6f-battle-of-the-sit-river-the-weight-of-two-centuries.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of the Sit River: Echoes Across the Principalities https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-sit-river/ Photo credit Vasily Vereshchagin, Public domain. The ripple effects of the Sit River reached every corner of medieval Russia. With Yuri dead and his army annihilated, the Mongols faced no further organized opposition as they pushed westward. Cities that might have resisted chose submission instead, having seen what resistance b...

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