Statue of Dmitri Donskoi (1862).

Dmitri Ivanovich Donskoi

(Дмитрий Донской, in Russian)

Created by: Louis

A medieval class project

                                      March 2006   

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Defense of Moscow from Tokhtamysh in 1382. Dmitri Donskoi   was a Russian hero, grand duke of Moscow and lived from 1359

to 1389. He successfully resisted many Lithuanian attempts to invade Moscow, and was

the first Russian prince since the Mongol conquest who risked his country to wage open

war on the Tatars (Tar-tars)*
 

my resource links:

Dmitri Donskoi

Tatars

 

 

 His great victory at Kulikovo (1380) made him a popular Russian hero, but the Tatars

regained their overlordship by their successful surprise attack on Moscow in 1382.

Dmitri Donskoi was Grand Prince of Moscow in 1359. He died in 1389.

 
*A group of a people that came from eastern

Central Asia and who made a large empire

stretching into the Russian territory.

 

 'Tatar dance' - (Crimean) Tatar soldier (left) fighting with the soldier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (right). This was a common occurrence until the 18th century.

 

 

 

 

◄Tatar

     Dance

Tatar's attacking a Russian castle in St. Petersburg

 

Cool fact:

Dmitri Donskoi was one of the first Russian Leaders

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But the Early Russians weren't all warlike, the Muscovites were quite elegant and used architecture like above.  

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