The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan

This article is about the Mongol attack on Riazan text. For the Mongol attack on Kievan Rus' text, see Tale of the Destruction of the Rus' Land.

The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan (by Batu) (Russian: Повесть о разорении Рязани Батыем, romanized: Povest' o razorenii Riazami Batyem)[1] is a Russian literary work about the capture of the city of Ryazan by the Mongols in 1237.[2] It is compiled from earlier manuscripts.[3]

  1. ^ Halperin 1987, p. 128.
  2. ^ Kort, Michael (2008). A Brief History of Russia. Infobase Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4381-0829-2.
  3. ^ Maiorov, Alexander V.; Hautala, Roman (25 August 2021). The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe. Routledge. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-000-41745-6.