Between 1441 and 1774, the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde conducted slave raids throughout lands primarily controlled by Russia and Poland–Lithuania. Concentrated in Eastern Europe, but also stre
Painting by Polish artist Józef Brandt depicting Zaporozhian Cossacks engaged in combat with Crimean Tatars, c. 1890
Depiction of the Great Abatis Border by Max Presnyakov (2010). This chain of fortification lines was constructed to protect Russia's subjects from the Crimeans and the Nogais, who, rapidly moving along the Muravsky Trail, ravaged the nation's southern provinces.
Russo-Crimean Wars
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The Russo-Crimean Wars were fought between the forces of the Tsardom of Russia and the Crimean Khanate during the 16th century over the region around the Volga River.
At the guarding border of the Moscow state. Painting by Sergey Vasilievich Ivanov.
Tatar invasion of Russia in 1521