Battle of Savinsk Forest
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| Battle of Savinsk Forest | |||||||
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| Part of Russo-Crimean Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Crimean Khanate Ottoman Empire |
 Tsardom of Russia Cossacks | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Unknown |
Grinev † Fomka Samoilov (POW) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Thousands | 700 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,000 killed |
300 killed 400 captured | ||||||
In 1632, an Ottoman-Crimean force ambushed a Russian force in Savinsk Forest in Kaluga Oblast
Battle[edit]
In the early 1630s, the southern frontier of Russia remained very vulnerable to Crimean raids. The frontier had negligible forces, few big guns, and improper grain storage. The garrison towns lacked anti-cavalry fences, and cavalry was as effective in defending even smaller Crimean raids.[1]
On July 30, 1632, 300 Tatars returning from a raid slipped past Livny into the Kursk district, a force of 700 boyars and Cossacks under the leadership of Grinev, a sortie force considered large by the standards of the time, were sent in pursuit of them. He overtook the Crimeans on August 3 away from Livny fifty versts. They were ambushed by throngs of Crimean cavalry and Ottoman Janissaries in Savisnk Forest. The Russian servicemen made a brave last stand all day, managing to resist the enemy forces and inflicting 1,000 casualties on them before being overwhelmed by the enemy. Three hundred Russians were killed, including the commander Grinev, and the rest were captured to be sold as slaves in Crimean markets,[2][1] Thus annihilating the Livny nobility. After this battle, the Crimeans turned to raid the Kursk and Belgorod districts.[2]
The Livny provincial noble (syn boiarskii), Fomka Samoilov syn Chernyi, was wounded and captured in this battle and enslaved for 28 years, working as a galley slave on Ottoman ships. He would be released in 1660.[3]
Bibliography[edit]
- Brian Davies, Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500 1700 (Warfare and History).[1]
- Christoph Witzenrath, Eurasian Slavery, Ransom and Abolition in World History, 1200-1860.[2]
- A.V. Zorin & A.I. Razdorsky, Kursk region in the 17th century, Chapter IV, Chronography of Ukranian lands (In Russian).[3]
References[edit]
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