Battle on Pyana River

Battle on Pyana River (1377)
	Part of the Great Troubles
Date	August 2 [O.S. July 21] 1377
Location	Pyana River
Result	Golden Horde victory
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.

^ ^a ^b Pokhlebkin & Pokhlebkin 1992, p. 66
^ Pokhlebkin & Pokhlebkin 1992, p. 67

[Pokhlebkin-Pokhlebkin_p._66-1] Pokhlebkin & Pokhlebkin 1992, p. 66

[Pokhlebkin-Pokhlebkin_p._67-2] Pokhlebkin & Pokhlebkin 1992, p. 67

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