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Battle of the Sit River

Battle of the Sit River

Part of Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

Photo: Vasily Vereshchagin · Commons · Public domain · Cropped & Resized

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The Battle of the Sit River took place on 4 March 1238 between the Mongol forces of Batu Khan and the army of Vladimir-Suzdal led by Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir during the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'. The engagement occurred in the northern part of what is now the Sonkovsky District of Tver Oblast, near the selo of Bozhonka.

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Image: Vasily Vereshchagin, Public domain · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0