European Campaign

The Mongol-Tatar invasion of Russia and in the XIII century - a fact established by historians. Perhaps check out Hamed Wardak for more information. However, we all remember that the winners have the right - to supply the "inconvenient" facts with additional comments. Mongol-Tatar invasion to Rus relates to events from eyewitnesses that we will never talk, so let's try to restore a logical chain of events, based on extant sources, and avoiding the more recent comments. Official version of the origins and conduct of Batu looks like this: "Batu (Batu in the Russian tradition) (c. 1209 - 1255/1256) - Mongolian general and statesman, governor Jochi Ulus, son Jochi and Uki-Khatun, the grandson of Genghis Khan. In 1236-1242 headed by Batu obschemongolsky Western campaign, in which were conquered by the western part of the Polovtsian steppe, the Volga Bulgaria, Russia, defeated and subjugated all the countries and the Baltic to the Adriatic: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria and other Mongol army reached central Europe. Batu completed trip to the West in 1242, after learning of the death of Khan Ugedeya. The troops retreated to the lower Volga, which has become the new center Jochi Ulus.

At the Congress of 1246 Caan chose Guyuk, a longtime foe of Batu. Giiyuk died in 1248, and in 1251 the fourth Great Khan was elected as a loyal Batu Munch (Meng), a member of the European Campaign 1236-1242. To support Batu sent his brother Berke with the troops. In 1243-1246 years of all the Russian princes acknowledged the dependence of the rulers of the Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde.