4 – exterminationwar

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1482. The burning and plundering of Kyiv by the Crimean Khan Mengli-Girey took place at the behest of the Moscovy prince Ivan III.

Mengli I Geray (in the center) with his son Mehmed (on the left) in front of Sultan Bayezid II (on the right).

The Khan plunders the main church of St. Sophia of Kyiv and transfers the shrine – the chalice and the diskos – to Moscovy along with carts of the stolen goods.

The direct aggression of Moscovy and the Tatar raids provoked by it contributed to the depopulation of Ukrainian territories, which reached 60%.

City of the 10th - 13th centuries. Part of the mountain with a view of Podil. City of Volodymyr. Fragment of the model D. Mazyukevych. 1968.

Ivan III (Vasilyevich) of Moscovy. Lithograph by Teve (1575).

Fragment of the chronicle. The caption states that "At the behest of the Moscow prince Ivan III" the Crimean Tsar captures and burns Kyiv.

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Three collages by candidate of historical sciences Tymur Bobrovsky show similar artifacts stolen by Russians from St. Sophia of Kyiv in the 20th century. In 1933 they called it “seizure to the State Archives.”

Black-and-white archival photos of the exhibits of the Lavra reserve next to colour modern images from the catalog of the State Historical Museum of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

Silver-gilded liturgical utensils presented by the Russian Emperor Alexander I to the Kyiv Metropolitan Serapion Alexandrovsky, 1814-1815. 1) prosphora plate; 2) spoon; 3) antidoron plate; 4) asterisk; 5) diskos; 6) chalice; 7) ladle.

Items from the royal gift to the Metropolitan of Kyiv, Gedeon Svyatopolk-Chetvertynsky, 1685-1686: 1) a gold mitre with finiftas and precious stones; 2) a gold diskos with finiftas.

Objects from the 18th century: 1) a golden chalice with finiftas of Ivan Mazepa.

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1487. Ivan III attacked the northeastern border of the Chernigov Principality – the Verkhovyna lands in the upper reaches of the Oka River. The first five years of the Seven Years’ War, the Moscovites called the aggression, “a war of the local population, which wants to be under the rule of the Moscovy prince.”

1500 – 1503. Moscovites capture Chernigov-Siverskyi. Bryansk is burned.