Battle of Livny

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Battle of Livny
Part of
7 July 1618
Location
Livny
Result Cossack victory
Belligerents Zaporozhian Cossacks Tsardom of RussiaCommanders and leaders Petro Sahaidachny
Strength 20,000 UnknownCasualties and losses Light Entire garrison killed[1] Nearly all Russian civilians killed or captured[2]

Battle of Livny (7 July 1618) was the capture of the Russian fortress by the Cossacks of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny at the beginning of the campaign against Moscow. The Cossacks destroyed a powerful garrison.[3][1][4]

Prelude

Hetman Petro Sahaidachny likely set out from Zaporozhian Sich in June 1618, leading about 20,000 Zaporozhians. Earlier, some Cossack regiments, under the guise of preparing for an expedition, entered the Kiev Voivodeship and severely plundered its inhabitants. Only the threat of using the crown's troops against them made the unruly Cossacks stop the rapes.[3]

Battle

The first Russian city that the Zaporozhians attacked was Livny. Cossacks of Petro Sahaidachny suddenly attacked the city on July 7, Saturday. His defenders tried to resist. Local voivodes Nikita Cherkassky and Pyotr Danilov even led their warriors on a sortie that proved fatal for them: P. Danilov was killed, and N. Cherkassky was captured. By one o'clock in the afternoon, Livny fell. After capturing Livny, the Zaporozhians killed or captured nearly all local residents and then settled in the fortress and in the surrounding settlements.[a] On July 10, the Cossacks left Livny, preparing to march on other Russian cities.[1][5]

Notes

  1. ^ The Belsky Chronicle writes: "And he, pan Saadachny, came with Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Ukrainian city of Livny, and took Livny by an assault, and shed much Orthodox Christian blood, and slaughtered many innocent Orthodox peasants with their wives and children, and committed desecration against many Orthodox Christians, and desecrated and destroyed the Orthodox churches, and robbed all the Christian houses, and took many women and children captive."[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Сас П. М. Запорожці у польсько-московській війні наприкінці Смути (1617-1618 рр.) (2010)". irbis-nbuv.gov.ua.
  2. ^ a b Бельский летописец
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  4. ^ Leszek Podhorodecki: Sicz zaporoska. Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1978.
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