Tokhtamysh sacks Moscow

1382

The Genghisid khan of the Golden Horde, having defeated Mamai with Timur's help, came west to remind Russia who its master was. Moscow's wooden walls were burned, its inhabitants slaughtered in the thousands. Dmitry Donskoi fled. Russian tribute payments to the Horde resumed for another century, even as the rot within the Horde steadily deepened.