Battle_on_Pyana_River
Battle on Pyana River
1377 battle between the Blue Horde and an alliance of Russian principalities
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.