44.3 Siege of Kazan 1552

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

History

4.4 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Siege of Kazan 1552. The conquest of Kazan and Astrakhan by Muscovy can be seen as the birth of a Russian Empire. It had profound consequences for the steppe region and beyond, allowing Russian expansion eastwards, eventually as far as the Pacific.

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0:40.3	The Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, the Siege of Kazan of 1552, Part 3 of 3.
1:32.3	In the previous two weeks I have talked about the relationship between the Russians, centered in Moscow, and the neighbours to the south and east, in the 1400s and early 1500s.
1:40.3	Those neighbours were the success estates of the once mighty Mongol Tatar Empire known as the Golden Horde,
1:47.0	namely the carnates of Kazan, Crimea, Siberia, the Great Horde and the Nogai Horde.
1:55.0	These relationships were at least as important to Muscovy as those with the Western neighbours.
2:04.2	Last week I described the early years of Tsar Ivan IV, the fourth of Muscovy, also known as Ivan the Terrible.
2:13.1	Russia's main ambitions for expansion lay eastward, hoping to exploit the political weakness of the carnate of Kazan on the River Volga.
2:22.3	A simmering conflict between Muscovy and Kizan came to a head in the late 1540s.
2:30.3	In the winters of 1547 to 1548 and 1549 to 1550, large Russian armies invaded Kazan.
2:41.8	In both cases, however, unseasably warm weather made it impossible to transport arms and supplies over melting ice and snow.
2:51.1	Ivan, realizing the importance of a forward base of operations,
2:54.6	founded the fortress of Sviag, in Cheromis territory on the Volga.
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