Battle on Pyana River (1377) | |||||||
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Part of the Great Troubles | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Pereyaslavl Yaroslavl Yuryev Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal Murom | Golden Horde | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ivan Dmitriyevich † |
Arab Shah Albuga |
The Battle on Pyana River (Russian: Сражение на реке Пьяне) took place on August 2, 1377 on the Pyana River between the Golden Horde under Arab Shah (Arapsha) and a Russian alliance under Prince Ivan Dmitriyevich, made up of the Pereyaslavl, Yaroslavl, Yuryev, Nizhny Novgorod, and Murom principalities.[1]
The Russian army, being drunken, was almost entirely routed by small forces of Arapsha, while Ivan Dmitriyevich had drowned together with druzhina and staff.[1] The river's name Pyana, translated as "drunken" from Russian, is derived from those events.[2] The corresponding events are further recorded in the medieval Russian Chronicle On The Slaughter at Pyana River.
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