Qualla: Siege of Fellin (1560) https://qualla.com/siege-of-fellin-1560 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/6/h/siege-of-fellin-1560-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Fellin (1560) https://qualla.com/siege-of-fellin-1560 Siege of Fellin (1560): Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-fellin-1560/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Livonian Order had ruled the lands that would become Estonia and Latvia for more than three hundred years when, on the morning of August 17, 1560, Russian artillery opened fire on the walls of Fellin Castle. Three days later, the walls were down. Five days later, the garrison mutinied and the city surrendered. Within months, the Order itself had ceased to exist - its lands carved up among Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia in the scramble that followed. The last Master of the Order, Wilhelm von Furstenberg, was put on a wagon and taken to Moscow as Ivan the Terrible's prisoner. Crusader states do not usually end this quickly. This one did.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/6/h/siege-of-fellin-1560-wp/ud6h-siege-of-fellin-1560-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Fellin (1560): An Order Out of Time https://qualla.com/siege-of-fellin-1560/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Livonian Order was the northern Baltic branch of the Teutonic Knights - a German military-religious order originally founded to convert and conquer the pagan Baltic peoples in the 13th century. By 1560 the conversion was long since complete, the crusader rationale was four hu...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/6/h/siege-of-fellin-1560-wp/ud6h-siege-of-fellin-1560-an-order-out-of-time.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Fellin (1560): The Disaster at Ergeme https://qualla.com/siege-of-fellin-1560/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Knowing what would happen if Fellin fell, the Order tried to stop the Russian advance in the field. The Master, Wilhelm von Furstenberg, sent out his available forces under the Landmarschall Philipp Schall von Bell. The Russian vanguard was commanded by Prince Vasily Barbashev. T...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/6/h/siege-of-fellin-1560-wp/ud6h-siege-of-fellin-1560-three-days-of-hellish-shelling.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Fellin (1560): The Master Carted to Moscow https://qualla.com/siege-of-fellin-1560/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Among those captured was Wilhelm von Furstenberg himself - the last functioning Master of the Livonian Order, who had taken refuge inside Fellin's walls. He was an old man by then, in his late sixties or early seventies, and had ruled a state that was in the process of disappeari...

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