page_title: Russo-Crimean Wars
section_title: Incomplete list of Tatar raids
hierarchical_section_title: Russo-Crimean Wars / Incomplete list of Tatar raids
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Лицевой летописный свод. 1521 год. Нашествие крымского хана Мехмед Гирея.
context_page_description: The Russo-Crimean Wars were fought between the forces of Russia and the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate during the 16th century over the region around Volga River.
  In the 16th century, the Wild Steppes in Russia were exposed to the Tatars. During the wars, Crimean Tatars invaded central Russia, devastated Ryazan, and burned Moscow. However, the next year the Tatars were defeated in the Battle of Molodi. Despite the defeat, the Tartar raids continued. As a result, the Crimean Khanate was invaded several times, conquered in late 18th century. The Tatars eventually lost their influence in the over the regions.
  The raids began shortly after the establishment of the Russia's buffer state, Qasim Khanate, and the domination of Russia in the Russo-Kazan Wars of the late 15th century.
context_section_description: This list does not include raids into Poland-Lithuania (75 raids during 1474–1569)
  A longer list can be found in ru:Крымско-ногайские набеги на Русь.
  1465: Crimea attacks the Great Horde to prevent it from raiding Russia and disrupting the northern trade
  1480: Great Stand on the Ugra River
  1507 and 1514: The Raids led by Tatar nobles, avoiding a peace agreement held by the Khan.
  1521: Khan and 50,000 men cross the Oka at Kolomna and ravage outskirts of Moscow for 2 weeks
  c. 1533: Abatis defense line about 100 km south of the Oka.
  1533–1547:(regency for Ivan IV) some 20 large raids on the frontiers.
  1541: Crimean Khan crosses the Oka river on rafts under covering fire from Turkish guns.
  1555, 1562, 1664, 1565 The Khan lead a large army into Muscovy.
  1556–1559: Russians and Zaporozhians raid the Black Sea coast four times.
  1564: The city of Ryazan posad was burned.
  1571: Russo-Crimean War (1571)
  1572: Battle of Molodi
  1591: Raid reaches Moscow. 
  1591: Artillery stops a raid at Kolomenskoy on the Bank Line. 
  1592: Suburbs of Moscow burned.  Russian troops were away fighting Sweden.
  1598: Crimeans stopped by Bank Line, withdraw and sue for peace.
  1614: Nogai raids within sight of Moscow. During the Time of Troubles so many captives were taken that the price of a slave at Kaffa dropped to fifteen or twenty gold pieces.
  1618: Nogais release 15,000 captives in peace treaty with Moscow.
  1632: Force from Livny ambushed by Tatars and Janissaries(sic). 300 killed and the rest enslaved.
  1632: 20,000 Tatars raid the south, as troops were shifted north for the Smolensk War.
  1633: 30,000 Tatars cross Abatis and Bank lines. Thousands were captured from Oka region. This was the last deep raid into Russia. 
  1635: Many small war parties invaded Russia south of Ryazan.
  1637, 1641–1643: Several raids were led by Nogais and Crimean nobles without permission of Khan.
  1643: 600 Tatars and 200 Zaporozhian Cossacks(sic) raid Kozlov. 19 were killed, and 262 were captured.
  1644: 20,000 The Tatars raid southern Russia, 10,000 captives.
  1645: A raid captures 6,000 captives. It is claimed that the Turks encouraged these raids to obtain galley slaves for a war with Venice.
  c. 1650: The Belgorod Line pushes Russian forts 300 km south of the Abatis Line.
  c. 1680: Izium Line: Russian forts were built within 150 kilometers of Black Sea.
  1687, 1689: Crimean campaigns: attempt to invade Crimea fails.
  1691–92: Several thousand captured near the Izium Line.
  1769: A winter raid into New Serbia. Several thousand were captured.
  1774: Crimea became a Russian vassal.
  1783: Crimea annexed by Russia.
caption: Tatar invasion of Russia in 1521
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