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Siege of Kozelsk
Defense of Kozelsk is one of the main events of the Western (Kipchak) March of the Mongols (1236–1242) and the Mongol invasion of Rus ' (1237–1240) at the end of the Mongol campaign in North-Eastern Russia (1237–1238). The siege in the spring of 1238 the town of Kozelsk, one of the specific princely centers of the Chernigov Principality in the former land of the Vyatichi.
== Background ==
Taking the city of Torzhok on 5 March after a two-week siege, the Mongols went on Seliger's road to Novgorod, however, not reaching about 100 miles, about Ignach cross turned South in the Polovtsian steppe, divided into two groups and continued on the way to destroy the survivors of the city.
Some of the forces led by Kadan and Storms passed over the Eastern route through the Ryazan land. The main forces led by Batu Khan passed through Dolgomost 30 km East of Smolensk, then entered the Chernigov Principality on the upper Gums, burned Vshchizh, but then abruptly turned to the North-East, bypassing the Bryansk and Karachev, at the end of March 1238 went to the Kozelsk on the river Zhizdra.
At that time the city was the capital of the Principality at the head of twelve-year-old Prince Vasily, grandson of Mstislav Svyatoslavich of Chernigov, who was killed at the battle of Kalka in 1223. The city was well fortified: surrounded by ramparts built on them walls, but the Mongols had a powerful siege equipment. Coming in April thaw made it impossible to help of Mikhail Vsevolodovich of Chernigov, the capital of one of its subordinate Autonomous principalities.
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