page_title: Battle on the Ice
section_title: Casualties
hierarchical_section_title: Battle on the Ice / Casualties
caption_attribution_description: English: Russian stamp. The 750th anniversary of Battle on the Ice. Русский: Почтовый блок России, посвящённый 750-летию Ледового побоища. №5.50 коп..: 750 лет Ледовому побоищу — почтовый блок России с одной маркой, не входящий в выпуски стандартных почтовых марок, а также в выпуски серийных почтовых марок и блоков, номиналом в 50 копеек. На марке изображён поединок русского воина с ливонским рыцарем. На полях блока — продолжение рисунка марки: момент битвы. Тип марки: Коммеморативная марка Способ печати: офсет с бронзовой пастой на мелованной бумаге Cтрана выпуска: Россия Дата выпуска: 20 февраля1992 год Издатель: ИТЦ "Марка" Художник: А.Яцкевич Размер марок: 95X65 КПД: 1164 Номинал: 50копеек Зубцовка: рамочная - 12½:12 Тираж: 900 000 Присвоенный номер: 5 [1]
context_page_description: The Battle on the Ice was fought between the Republic of Novgorod led by Prince Alexander Nevsky and the forces of the Livonian Order and Bishopric of Dorpat led by Bishop Hermann of Dorpat on April 5, 1242, at Lake Peipus. The battle is notable for having been fought largely on the frozen lake, which gave the battle its name.
  A significant defeat was sustained by the crusaders during the Northern Crusades, which were directed against pagans and Eastern Orthodox Christians rather than Muslims in the Holy Land. The Crusaders' defeat in the battle marked the end of their campaigns against the Orthodox Novgorod Republic and other Slavic territories for the next century.
  The event was glorified in Sergei Eisenstein's historical drama film Alexander Nevsky, released in 1938, which created a popular image of the battle often mistaken for the real events. Sergei Prokofiev turned his score for the film into a concert cantata of the same title, with "The Battle on the Ice" being its longest movement.
context_section_description: According to the Livonian Order's Livonian Rhymed Chronicle, written in the late 1340s,
  The [Russians] had many archers, and the battle began with their bold assault on the king's men [Danes]. The brothers' banners were soon flying in the midst of the archers, and swords were heard cutting helmets apart. Many from both sides fell dead on the grass. Then the Brothers' army was completely surrounded, for the Russians had so many troops that there were easily sixty men for every one German knight. The Brothers fought well enough, but they were nonetheless cut down. Some of those from Dorpat escaped from the battle, and it was their salvation that they fled. Twenty brothers lay dead and six were captured.
  According to the Novgorod First Chronicle,
  Prince Alexander and all the men of Novgorod drew up their forces by the lake, at Uzmen, by the Raven's Rock; and the Germans and the Estonians rode at them, driving themselves like a wedge through their army. And there was a great slaughter of Germans and Estonians... they fought with them during the pursuit on the ice seven versts short of the Subol [north-western] shore. And there fell a countless number of Estonians, and 400 of the Germans, and they took fifty with their hands and they took them to Novgorod.
caption: Battle of the Ice anniversary, 750 years. Miniature sheet of Russia, 1992
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