Crimean Khanate Raids on the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 1570s

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1. 1571Moscow · RussiaCrimean Khan Devlet I led a large army around Russia's southern defenses and struck Moscow. The main Russian army was still in Livonia and the capital was poorly defended; the khan's forces burned the outskirts and carried off large numbers of people and goods, dealing a heavy blow to Ivan IV's rule.
2. 1572Molodi · RussiaDevlet I again led a combined Crimean and Ottoman vassal army south. Russia inflicted a severe defeat on the khan's forces at Molodi through a combination of field battle and fortifications; the khan's army retreated in disorder and the southern threat was temporarily eased, though the pattern of steppe raids did not end.