KULIKOVO, BATTLE OF

koolyĭkôˈvə, 1380, victory of Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow over Khan Mamai of the Golden Horde. The battle was fought on a plain by the Don near the present village of Kurkino, Russia, SE of Tula. Although the victory was the first Russian defeat of the Tatars, it did not eliminate Mongol rule, which endured for another century.

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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
Book by Michael T. Florinsky; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Encyclopedias
...Treaty of Tilsit 1807 inaugurated an uneasy peace shattered by Napoleons invasion of Russia June 1812 . After the battle of Borodino, the French occupation of Moscow and its destruction by fire, Napoleons armies retreated from Russia. Then...
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Russia: Tsarist and Communist
Book by Anatole G. Mazour; D. Van Nostrand, 1962
Subjects: Soviet Union--History
...including the Golden Horde. THE BATTLE OF KULIKOVO, 1380 The success of Dimitri...south for another trial. The Battle of Kulikovo proved to be a savage fight...failures added difficulties. The Battle of Kulikovo, though marking a victory over...
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The Life of a Chemist: Memoirs of Vladimir N. Ipatieff
Book by Xenia Joukoff Eudin, Harold H. Fisher, Vladimir Haensel, Ralph H. Lusher, Helen Dwight Fisher; Stanford University Press, 1946
Subjects: Chemistry--Soviet Union--History, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--20th Century
...introduction of artillery into the Russian army. The Grand Duke Dimitrii Donskoi used artillery for the first time in the battle of Kulikovo.* The celebration of this anniversary, which lasted three days, began with a solemn affair at the Artillery Museum...
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A History of Russia
Book by Jesse D. Clarkson; Random House, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--History
...xviii The Shock of the Mongol Conquest vi The Emancipation Proclamation xviii The Battle of Kulikovo vi Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra xix The Monastery of Troitsa-Sergievo vi Rasputin...
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Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia
Book by Madhavan K. Palat; Palgrave, 2001
Subjects: Nationalism--Russia--History, Russia--History--Nicholas Ii, 1894-1917, Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921
...Edited by Madhavan K. Palat Professor of Russian and European History Jawaharlal...reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied...
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Anna Akhmatova: The Stalin Years
Journal article by Roberta Reeder; New England Review, Vol. 18, 1997
Subjects: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna--1889-1966
...Peter the Great, who built his fleet here, and the Battle of Kulikovo, a landmark event in Russian history, which was...light green, Faded, dulled, in sunny haze, And the Battle of Kulikovo blows from the slopes Of the mighty, victorious...


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Time Out
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 6, 2008
...was the Russian river on whose banks the 1380 Battle of Kulikovo was fought? WHEN did Jacques Chirac first become prime minister of France? remember when ... 1 Scent of Mystery was the first - and last - feature film...


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Kulikovo, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KULIKOVO, BATTLE OF koolyiko v , 1380, victory of Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow over Khan Mamai of the Golden Horde . The battle was fought on a plain by the Don near the present village of...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...themselves inside the parliament building. On Oct. 3, supporters of the anti-Yeltsin group broke through a security cordon to join...military interceded on Yeltsins side, and on Oct. 4, after a bloody battle, troops recaptured the parliament building. Many people were...


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