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СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ КОМПЛЕКСОВ ВООРУЖЕНИЯ
КЫРГЫЗОВ И КИМАКОВ В IX –X ВЕКАХ
Худяков Ю.С.
Россия, Новосибирск, Институт
археологии и этнографии СО РАН
На протяжении трех тысячелетий, со времени выделения в зоне
Евразийских степей особого культурно-хозяйственного типа кочевых
скотоводов и на всем протяжении его последующего существования, военная
сфера всегда занимала одно из ведущих направлений в жизнедеятельсности
кочевых обществ. Во многом, благодаря высокому уровню развития
военного дела, кочевой мир смог разиваться, аккумулировать основные
ресурсы степного ландшафта и использовать внешние поступления,
получаемые в качестве дани с обществ, основанных на других культурно-
хозяйственных типах.
Предпринимавшиеся ранее опыты оружиеведческого анализа разных
видов источников позволили проследить основные этапы развития
оружейных комплексов древних номадов бронзовогого века, особенности
военного дела тюркских и монгольских кочевых народов Южной Сибири и
Центральной Азии на протяжении на протяжении хунно-сяньбийской эпохи,
периодов раннего, развитого и позднего Средневековья. Как показал
сравнительный анализ, несмотря на наличие общих тенденция в развитии
вооружения и способов его применения на всем протяжении военной
истории древних и средневековых номадов Центрально-Азиатского
историко-культурного региона, каждый из изученных оружейных
комплексов обладал своеобразными чертами.
Свои характерные четры были характерны для военного дела населения
Кыргызского и Кимакского каганатов в период их возвышения на военно-
политической арене Центральной Азии в IX – X вв.
В эпоху «Кыргызского великодержавия» правящая элита енисейских
кыргызов смогла консолидироваться вокруг своего правителя Ажо, который
провозгласил себя каганом и тем самым бросил вызов уйгурскому кагану в
борьбе за господство над всем регионом Центральной Азии
2, с. 489
.
Важным фактором успеха в длительной войне с уйгурами стало
высокоразвитое военное дело. Кыргызам удалось наладить собственное
оружейное производство, что позволило обеспечить армию самыми
современными для того времени формами оружия дистанционного и
ближнего боя, и средствами защиты, создать централизованную военную
организацию по образцу азиатской десятичной системы деления войска и
народа, в рамках которой было подготовлено и вооружено три тумена
кыргызской панцирной конницы и восемь десятитысячных отрядов легкой
кавалерии, составленной из воинов союзных и зависимых племен кыштымов,
усовершенствовать тактику ведения конного боя, которая предусматривала
сочетание
атакующих
действий
отрядов
легковооруженной
и
тяжеловворуженной конницы. Кыргызским правителям удалось подчинить
северные племена Бома, с которыми они ранее постоянно враждовали, и
включить их в состав своей армии
7, с. 134-135, 138-141, 155-157
.
Наибольшее значение для обеспечения победоносного хода войны имело
развитие вооружения. В IХ – Х вв. на вооружении у кыргызских воинов
наряду с обычными сложносоставными луками с концевыми, срединными
боковыми и фронтальной накладками, появились луки с одной парой
срединных боковых накладок или подобные луки с дополнением срединной
фронтальной накладки
7, с. 69-73
. Появление этих форм луков было
направлено на повышение их скорострельности. По сравнению с набором
оружия предшествующего периода у кыргызских воинов значительно
возросло количество форм железных наконечников стрел. Для поражения
незащищенного металлическим доспехом противника они применяли
наконечники с трехлопастным, двухлопастным, четырехлопастным и
плоским пером разных типов. Наиболее распространенными были стрелы с
вытянуто-пятиугольной, удлиненно-шестиугольной, удлиненно-ромбической
и
асимметрично-ромбической
формой
пера.
Наиболее
крупные
трехлопастные наконечники снабжались фигурными отверстиями в лопастях
и костяными шариками-свистунками. Еще большим разнообразием форм
выделялись кыргызские стрелы, предназначенные для пробивания
металлического защитного покрытия, преодоления панцирной брони,
рассечения и раздвижения колец кольчуги. В составе спектра бронебойных
стрел кыргызских воинов IX – X вв. были трехгранно-трехлопастные,
четырехгранно-четырехлопастные,
трехгранные,
четырехгранные,
прямоугольные и округлые в сечении наконечники разных типов. Среди них
были наконечники удлиненно-ромбической, ярусной, боеголовковой,
вытянуто-пятиугольной, удлиненно-треугольной и иных форм
7, с. 88, 6, с.
135-136
. Разнообразие форм является важнейшим показателем развитости
набора стрел определенного функционального назначения. По количеству
групп и типов бронебойных наконечников кыргызский набор стрел
значительно превосходит аналогичные наборы в составе комплексов
вооружения всех других тюркских и монгольских кочевых народов
Центральной Азии в эпоху раннего Средневековья
8, с. 145-146, 171, 185-
186, 214-214; 9, с. 13-14, 33-36
. Луки и стрелы кыргызские воины хранили и
носили в налучьях и колчанах. Этими видами оружия были вооружены
воины, как служившие в легкой кавалерии, так и тяжеловооруженные
кавалеристы. Отряды легкой конницы обстреливали противника в рассыпном
строю. В набор оружия панцирных всадников входили различные виды
оружия ближнего и рукопашного боя: копья и пики с ромбическими,
округлыми и квадрадными в сечении наконечниками. Они были главным
оружием таранных атак, проводившихся тяделовооруженными воинами в
плотно сомкнутом строю. В рукопашном бою кыргызские воины атаковали
врагов палашами, саблями и боевыми топорами
10, с. 109
. Палаши и сабли
были самым престижным оружием кыргызских панцирных всадников.
Особенно ценились импортные клинки, изготовленные мастерами-
оружейниками в странах ближнего и Среднего Востока. Подобная сабля с
клинком из дамасской стали, украшенная орнаментом и арабской надписью с
изречением из Корана, была обнаружена в кургане кыргызского
военачальника Багыра в Туве
3, с. 26
. Кыргызские тяжеловооруженные
воины защищали голову и тело сфероконическим железным шлемом,
чешуйчатым, или ламеллярным панцирем, плечи и грудь накладными
щитками, руки и ноги – наручьями и поножами. Для защиты корпуса
использовались деревянные щиты, округлой формы, сколоченные из досок.
Панцирные всадники прикрывали защитной попоной и тело боевого коня,
которую дополняли накладные щитки
5, 1961. с. 60
. С выделением в
составе кыргызского войска отрядов тяжеловооруженной конницы тактика
ведения конного боя стала сочетать атаки легкой и панцирной кавалерии с
последовательным вводом в действие разных контингентов. На
дистанционной фазе сражения в бой вводились отряды легкой конницы,
которые стремились охватить вражеское построение по фронту и с флангов и
вести обстрел по всей линии соприкосновения. В решающий момент
сражения противника атаковала панцирная кавалерия, которая должна была
подавить его организованное сопротивление.
Другим крупным военно-политическим государственным образованием,
возникшим в завершающий период эпохи раннего Средневековье в степных
районах Алтая, Восточного и Центрального Казахстана, и Западной Сибири,
с центром в Прииртышье, был Кимакский каганат был создан на базе
объединения семи тюркских и монгольских кочевых племен
4, с. 92-94
. По
одной из научных гипотез несколько монголоязычных кочевых племен после
разгрома Уйгурского каганата переселились из северо-восточной Монголии
на запад в верховья Иртыша, где объединились с западными тюркскими и
телесскими племенами племенную конфедерацию, на основе которой было
создано Кимакское государство
1, с. 146
. Значительную часть кочевого
населения в составе этого государства составляли кочевые племена
кыпчаков, потомков западных тюрок и тюкизированные племена степного
Алтая и Западной Сибири
11, с. 144-145, 148
. В предметном комплексе
памятников кочевого населения этих районов, относящихся ко периоду
существования Кимакского каганата представлены разнообразный набор
предметов вооружения. В составе оружия дистанционного боя выделяется
несколько типов луков с концевыми, срединными боковыми и фронтальной
накладками, либо только со срединными накладками В памятниках этого
времени в Приобье были обнаружены луки с одной срединной фронтальной
накладкой, которые в дальнейшем получат широкое распространение в
монгольскую эпоху
8, с. 181
. В кимакском наборе железных наконечников
стрел преобладали трехлопастные асимметрично-ромбической, удлиненно-
ромбической, вытянуто-пятиугольной и боеголовковой форм. Наряду с ними
использовались и плоские стрелы разных типов, среди которых чаще других
наконечники с асимметрично-ромбическим пером. В комплексе кимакских
бронебойных стрел представлены трехгранно-трехлопастные, трехгранные,
четырехгранные, ромбические и круглые в сечении наконечники. наиболее
употребительными среди них были трехгранные асиммертично-ромбической,
удлиненно-ромбической и боеголовковой формы. Помимо стрел с
железными наконечниками население северной периферии Кимакского
каганата широко использовало костяные стрелы
8, с. 186-188
. Стрелы
хранились в закрытых и открытых колчанах, широко распространенных в
кочевом мире в раннем Средневековье.
В ближнем бою кимакские всадники могли атаковать противника
копьями с ромбическими и линзовидными в сечении наконечниками с
удлиненно-ромбическим пером. К числу редких форм относится находка
наконечника копья с трехлопастным пером из Степного Алтая
8, с. 195
. Все
обнаруженные к настоящему времени кимакские копья можно отнести к
числу универсальных, предназначенных для поражения незащищенного
металлическим доспехом и тяжеловооруженного противника. Среди них нет
специализированных
бронебойных
форм.
Большим
разнообразием
отличается клинковое оружие кимакских воинов. В их числе представлены
мечи с прямым, обоюдоострым, ромбическими или линзовидным в сечении
клинком; палаши с прямым однолезвийным клинком, прямой рукоятью и
разными формами перекрестий; сабли с прямым или слабоизогнутым
клинком, изогнутой рукоятью и различными перекрестьями
8, с. 190-195
.
Судя по находкам панцирных пластин и бронзовых бляшек с изображением
кимакских панцирных всадников, для защиты кимакские воины применяли
чешуйчатые и ламеллярные панцири, сфероконические шлемы и щиты
8, с.
196-198
. Состав оружия в кимакских памятниках с разных районов их
распространения свидетельствует, что в Восточном Казахстане, Степном
Алтае и Верхнем Приобье в составе военных отрядов были как
легковооруженные, так и панцирные всадники, а на северной периферии
Кимакского каганата преобладали конные стрелки.
Сравнивая между собой кыргызский и кимакский оружейные комплексы
можно отметить, что различия касаются нескольких видов оружия. Среди
луков заметных отличий между обоими комплексами не наблюдается. По
набору групп и типов кимакский набор небронебойных стрел вполне
сопоставим с кыргызским. Несколько отличается от кыргызского меньшим
числом форм кимакский набор бронебойных наконечников стрел. В
кыргызских памятниках значительно больше находок подобных стрел, что
свидетельствует о больших возможностях поражения защищенных
доспехами противников в дистанционном бою. В наборе средств ведения
таранных атак кыргызские воины также имели ощутимые преимущества,
поскольку помимо универсальных, у них на вооружении были различные
типы специализированных бронебойных копий. В то же время набор
клинкового оружия кимаков отличается большим разнообразием форм и
большим количеством самих находок этого оружия. Также как и кыргызские
воины кимаки стремились к приобретению престижных импортных клинков
8, с. 191-192
. В составе кимакских военных отрядов были панцирные и
легкоовооруженные всадники и пехотинцы, входившие в состав каганской
гвардии и ополчений племен и городов. Отряды легкой конницы действовали
в рассыпном строю и атаковать противника лавой. Они несколько уступали
отрядам кыргызской панцирной кавалерии в проведении таранных атак, но
располагали более широкими возможностями в рукопашной фазе конного
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KIPCHAKS AND THE MONGOI CAMPAIGNS AGAINST
EASTERN EUROPE
István Zimonyi
Hungary, Szeged University
There were three important political actors in the beginning of the 13th century
in Eastern Europe. The Kipchak tribes ruled the steppe zone, while the Kievan Rus
and Volga Bulgars controlled the forest zone. The Kipchak tribes reached Eatern
Europe in the middle of the 11th century and from that time on they played
important role not only in the history of Rus and Volga Bulgars, but they had deep
impact in Georgia, Byzantium, Danube Bulgaria and Hungarian Kingdom. The
Mongols creating a vast empire in the first half of the 13th century waged war
twice against Eastern Europe and after successful conquest the Golden Horde was
founded.
1
This paper focuses on the Mongol campaigns against the Kipchaks within the
western conquest. The Kipchak tribes of Eastern Europe migrated along the rivers.
The reconstruction of their settlements was based on the direction of the Rus
attacks which have survived in the Russian annals, the archaeological excavations,
the territorial distribution of the Kipchak stone sculptures and the evidence of place
names. Accordingly the following groups can be distinguished: Danube, Bug,
Dnepr, Azov, Don, Donec, Caucasus and Volga-groups.
2
The Mongol forces attacked Eastern Europe first through the Caucasus in
1223. The campaign was a part of a larger war against the empire of the
Khwarazmshah. Chinggis Khan’s troops assembled on the river Irtish in the
summer of 1219 and reached Otrar in the autumn. The Khwarazshah distributed his
forces among the big cities as he was afraid of a decisive battle, but Chinggis Khan
abandoning the tactics applied in north China conquered the towns of Transoxania
one by one. Otrar was captured after five months siege in February 1220. Bukhara
was taken in the same month and Samarkand in March. The empire came to an
end. Jal l al-Dīn, the son of the Shah was the only leader, who defeated the
Mongols in a battle, but he was forced to retreat to India. Chinggis Khan sent his
generals Jebe and Sübötey to pursuit Muhammad, the Khwarazmshah according
the basic Mongol strategy. He flew to an island of the Caspian Sea and died there
in January 1221.
3
The Mongol generals asked the permission of Chinggis Khan to
continue the campaign to reconnoitre the western countries and so they attacked
Azerbaijan and Georgia, then they crossed the Caucasus in 1222. The Alans made
an alliance with the nomadic Kipchaks.
4
The Mongols sent envoys to the Kipchaks
according to Ibn al-Athīr who were successful in alienating the Kipchaks stating
that the Mongols and Kipchaks were of the same stock (jins) and they have
1
The western campaigns of the Mongols in general: Spuler 1943, ; Vernadsky 1953; Grekov-Jakubovskij 1950;
Tihvinskij 1970; Göckenjan 1991; Sinor 2001; sourcebooks on the campaigns: Göckenjan, Sweeney 1985;
Tatárjárás emlékezete; Revised and supplemented version: Tatárjárás.
2
Fedorov-Davidov reconstructed six (1966, 147-150) and Pletneva eight groups (1974, 19-23), twelve by Pritsak
1982, 340-341
3
Ratschnecsky 1993, 118-134.
4
The term used in Muslim and eastern sources, whereas Cumans in western and Polovtsians in Russian sources.
different religion than the Alans. The Mongols promised treasure and clothing to
the Kipchaks, who accepted the offer and left the Alans and dispersed. First the
Alans were crushed and then the Cumans.
5
The Mongols spent the winter in the
northern Caucasus and took Sugdak on the Crimea.
6
In 1223 they penetrated into
the steppe and they killed the son of Konchak, Yuriy and Danil Kobyakovich
during the wars, but Köten and other princes escaped.
7
The western Russian princes paid little attention to the raid of Chinggis Khan,
as the Russian annals did not record it at all. The prince of Galych, Mstislav was
informed about the events in the Caucasus by his father-in-law, the Kipchak ruler
Köten, who offered presents for making an alliance against the Mongols. Mstislav
convoked the Russian prince to Kiev. The princes of Kiev and Chernigov took part
in the war council and decided to march together with the Kipchaks against the
Mongols toward southeast and to attack the Mongols on the steppe. The main
body of the army went along the Dnepr and met the envoys of the Mongols under
Zarub who declared that the Mongols did not intend to attack the Rus’ territories
west of the Dnepr and said: “We have heard that you are marching against us,
having harkened to the Polovtsians/Kipchaks; but we have not attacked your land
or your villages, nor have we marched against you; but we have come, sent by
God, against our serfs and our grooms, the pagan Polovtsians. Make peace with us.
Should (the Polovtsians) escape to you, then drive them off and take their goods
for yourselves. We have heard that they have done much evil to you, and for this
reason we are fighting them.”
8
The report contains several topoi, but reflects the
aim of the Mongols to divide the opponents. The Russians killed the envoys and
the reinforcement from Chernigov, Galych and Smolensk arrived. The allied forces
reached the easternmost bend of the Dnepr, when other Mongol envoys arrived:
“You have harkened to the Polovtsians and have killed our envoys and are
marching against us. March on, then. But we have not attacked you. May God (be
judge) of all men.”
9
The Russian troops crossed the Dnepr and marched forward on
the steppe. The battle took place on the Kalka on 31 May between the Mongols
and Russian-Kipchak army. The Kipchak troop under Yarun retreated. The three
leading princes fell during the fight and the Mongols defeated the Russian forces
and pursued the remnants as far as the Dnepr, then retreated.
10
The crushing defeat
was due to the feud among the Russian princes and lack of unity among the
commanders, absence of the troops from the powerful northern and eastern
principalities such as Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal. The casualties amounted to
the half of the participating princes.
11
The news of the Mongol attack in 1223
reached Europe through Henry of Livonia’s Chronicle.
12
5
The basic source is Ibn al-Athīr description on the Mongol campaign. On operations in the Caucasus cf. Schütz
1973.
6
Ibn al-Atīr X, 416–417; Richards 2010, 222–223; A tatárjárás… 58–59).
7
NPL 62, 265.
8
Fennell 1983, 65
9
Dietze 1971, 94-96; Fennell 1983, 66.
10
The Russian annals recorded the events under title the “Tale of the battle on the Kalka” in different versions,
which preserved reliable historical data. Cf. Fennell 1980, 18-31.
11
Fennell 1983, 63-68
12
Göckenjan, Sweeney 1985, 29-32.
Then the Mongols attempted to conquer the Volga Bulgars, but they had precise
information about the nomadic tactics of the Mongols and they put up ambushes
for the Mongols and defeated them. Ibn al-Athīr recorded: “Most of them were
killed, none but only a few escaped. It was said they were about 4 000 men. They
went to Saqsin returning to their king, Chinngis Khan. The territoty of the
Qipchaqs became empty of them and whoever survived of them returned to his
country. The road was cut: The Tatars had entered it and nothing arrived from
them from fox, ermine, sable, etc. of what is carried from these countries. When
they left it (the road), they returned to their country and the roads was
uninterrupted and carried the goods as before.”
13
During the first Mongol invasion
the Kipchak tribes between the Dnepr and Volga were temporally conquered.
Parallel with the campaign of Jebe and Sübötey Jochi, the eldest son of
Chinggis Khan marched on the Syr-darya and captured the towns of Sugnak,
Özkend, Barchin and Ashnas and finally Jand im April 1220. Afterwards Chingis
Khan sent Jochi, Ögedey and Chagatay against Khw razm during his campaign in
Transoxania. Ögedey and Chagatay sieged the town and returned to their father,
while Jochi marched to the steppe and remained there till the spring of 1223.
Chinngis Khan with his sons met him between Chimkent and Jambul and spent the
summer with hunting. Then Jochi returned his camp.
14
Rashīd al-Dīn recorded the
events in another way after the siege of Khwarazm stating: „Chagatay and Ögetey
then set off to join their father, and they reached Chingiz-Khan before the fortress
of T laq n. As for Jochi, he set out from Khw razm for the Erdish, where his
heavy baggage was, and reached his ordos. Previously, Chingiz-Khan had ordered
Jochi, he set out upon the conquest of the northern countries, such as those of the
Bular, Bashghïrd, Orus, Cherkes, and the Qïpchaq Steppe, and to subjugate them.
As /Jochi/ had held back from this operation and returned to his own tents,
Chingiz-Khan was extremely annoyed and said: ‘I will put him to death without
seeing his face.’ Jochi was taken suddenly ill.”
15
Finally Jochi died and the conflict
came to an end. Rashīd al-Dīn mentioned the order of Chingiz-Khan to attack the
western countries once again: „It had been previously ordained by a yarlïgh of
Chingiz-Khan that Jochi should proceed with an army and seize and take
possession of all the northern countries, such as Ibir-Sibir, Bular, the Qïpchaq
Steppe, and the lands of the Bashghïrd, Rus, and Cherkes as far as Darband on the
Caspian, which the Mongols call Temür-Qahalqa. Jochi neglected this command,
and when Ögedey Khan acceded to the Khanate, he charged Batu with the same
undertaking, deputing his nephew Möngke Qa’an, the latter’s brother Böchek, and
his own son Güyük Khan, along with such great emirs as Sübetey Bahadur, the
army commander of the Uriyangqat people who came to this country with Jebe, at
the head of an army, to gather all together with the other princes under Batu and set
about the conquest of the northern countries.”
16
The chronology of this neglected
command is debated, as Juwaynī having described the campaign of Jebe and
Sübedey as far as the cross of the pass Darband in the Caucasus than he wrote that
13
Ibn al-Athīr XII, 388-389; Zimonyi 1992/3, 350; Zimonyi 1985, 197-204; Volžskie Bulgarija 1988).
14
J. A. Boyle, Djuči: EI II, , 571; Ratschnevsky 1993, 136-137.
15
Boyle 1971, 118, Thackston 1999, 359.
16
Boyle 1971, 107-108; Thackston 1999, 352
Sübedey met Jochi in the Dasht-i Qipchaq in the beginning of 1224 and both
joined to Chingis Khan:
17
„Then they came to Darband and none remembered that
any army had ever passed through or gone to war by this route, but they had resort
to a stratagem and so passed through. The army of Tushi stationed on the Plain of
the Qifchaq and that region; they linked up with them and departed from thence to
rejoin Chingiz-Khan.”
18
According to Rashīd al-Dīn Jochi refused to meet Chingis Khan as he
neglected his command to attack the western countries, so it cannot be dated before
1223, which seem to be logical, as Jochi could help the campaign led by Sübötey
and Jebe. All in all Chingis Khan sent his eldest son Jochi to the west. The details
and results of this attack is not known, only the western border of Jochi ulus were
recorded by Juwaini: «When during the reign of Chingiz-Khan the kingdom
became of vast extent he assigned to everyone his place of abode, which they call
yurt. To his eldest son, Tushi (Tūšī), he gave the territory stretching from the
regions of Qayaligh
19
(Qay līġ) and Khorezm (Hw rizm) to the remotest parts of
Saqsin (Saqsīn) and Bulghar (Bulġ r) and as far as the hoof of Tartar horse had
penetrated.”
20
We have no data on the attack of Jochi between 1224 and 1227.
Chinggis-Khan’s attention turned toward the Tanguts and he died during the
campaign against the Tanguts in 1227.
The new great khan, Ögödey was elected in 1229, whose first step was to
conquer the Qitays in north China. It meant that greater forces were not sent
against Eastern Europe between 1227 and 1235. The Russian annals mentioned
border incidents in 1229 and 1232 referring to the Volga-region.
21
Both attacks had
consequences for the Kipchaks and Volga Bulghars. In 1229 a Mongol raid is
recorded in the Russian annals: “In 1229 the inhabitants of Saqsin and the Polovec
escaped from the Tatars to the Bulgars from the south and the Bulgar advanced
guard also retreated as they were defeated by the Tatars near the Yayik (Ural)
river.”
22
In 1232 the Mongols attacked the Volga Bulgars nott reaching their Great
Town (Biler).
23
The eastern borders of the Volga Bulghars were conquered. These
Mongol attacks had an impact on the Kipchaks along the Volga.
Ögedey having consolidated the East, i.e. North China and Persia convoked a
quriltay in 1235 and it was decided to launch an attack against the West, i.e
Europe. Rashīd al-Dīn described it in detail: “Having returned in the Year of the
Horse (1234) from his conquest of the lands of Khitai, Qa’an had called an
assembly in Talan-Daba and held a quriltay. In this Year of the Sheep (1235) he
wished to reassemble all the sons, kinsfolk, and emirs and cause them to listen
once again to the yasas and ordinances. They all presented themselves in
accordance with his command, and he distinguished them everyone with every sort
of kindness and favour. For one continuous month, in union with his kinsmen, he
joined the morning /draught/ to the evening draught in feasting, and in his wonted
17
Buell 1993, 19-20.
18
Qazwini 1912, 116; Boyle 1958 I, 149.
19
A lay to the west of Kopal (Boyle 1958 I, 42, note 9).
20
Qazwini 1912, 31; Boyle I, 42
21
Zimonyi 1992, 351-352.
22
PSRL I, 453; Zimonyi 1992/93, 351.
23
PSRL I, 459; Zimonyi 1992/93, 352.
manner in accordance to his practice, he bestowed upon that assembly all the
valuables that had been gathered together in the treasuries. And when they had
done with feasting and merrymaking he turned to the disposal of the affairs of the
state and the army. And since some parts of the lands had not yet been conquered,
and in certain countries some were practicing rebellion, he set about dealing with
these matters, dispatching each one of his kinsmen in a different direction and
intending to proceed in his own person to the Qïpchaq Steppe. However, Möngke
Qa’an, who, although in the first flower of youth, had the perfect wisdom and
counsel of an old man, remarked upon Qa’an’s intention and said: “All of us
brothers and sons stand awaiting thy ever-fulfilled command so that we may give
our lives in whatever manner he may suggest whilst Qa’an busies himself with
spectacles and pleasure and amusement and does not endure the toils and hardships
of travel. Otherwise of what use are kinsmen and emirs, and a countless army?”
All present approved these perfect words and made them their model and guide;
and the august mind of Qa’an resolved that of the princes, Batu, Möngke Qa’an,
and Güyük Khan, together with others of the princes and a great army, should set
out for the countries of the Qïpchaq, Orus, Bular, Majar, Bashghïrd, Sudaq, and
/all/ that region and subjugate them all.”
24
The aim of the campaign was described
in the Secret History of the Mongols as follows: “Earlier on, Sübe’etey-ba’atur,
campaigning against Meket (=Magas), Men-kermen, Keyibe and other cities, had
crossed the rivers Adil and Jayaq rich in water, and had reached as far as Qanglin,
Kibcha’ut, Bajigit, Orusut, Asut, Sesüt, Majar, Keshimir, Sergesüt, Buqar (read
Bolar) and Keler peoples.
25
The subjugation of the Kipchaks were mentioned
among main strategic aim of the campaign.
The basic strategy of the Mongols during the western campaign was the attack
against the nomads on the steppe in summer and against the peoples of the forest
region in winter. The Hungarian friar, Julianus illuminated the matter with the
following words: “Those Russians, Hungarians and Bulgars, who escaped from
them, told me personally that the Tatars look forward to the coming winter, when
the rivers and marshes freeze and so they can plunder easily the whole Russia with
their numerous strength as they did in case of the Rutens.”
26
The great western campaign directed first against the Volga Bulgars. Mongol
forces joined near their country in the autumn of 1236 and conquered Volga
Bulgaria during the winter. The parallel and subsequent events of the raid against
the Volga Bulgars were recorded in the letter of Julianus. The attack against Saksin
on the lower Volga led by Möngke and Büjek with the left wing of the Mongol
army was described by Juwaynī.
27
Pelliot dated the campaign to the winter of
1236/1237.
28
After consolidating the Mongol power in the Volga-Kama region and
Volga-Don steppe the Mongols attacked the Mordvins and Burtas (Vedin/Veda
and Merovia by Julianus).
24
Ali-Zade 1980, 116-119; Boyle 1971, 54-55; Verhovskij 1960, 35-36; Thackston 1999, 324
25
Rachewiltz 1985, 26-27.
26
Vernadsky 1953, 50; Dörrie 1956; Göckenjan, Sweeney 1985, 104-105; Györffy 1986, 76-77.
27
Boyle 1958 II, 553-554 cf. Chinese description by Pelliot 1920, 166.
28
Pelliot 1920, 167.
Rashīd al-Dīn gave a detailed description of the events inserting the campaign
against the Hungarian king at the beginning of the report: „They all set out
together in the spring of the bichin yïl, that is, the Year of the Monkey, falling in
Jum d II of the year 633 /12
th
February - 12
th
March, 1236/. Having travelled
throughout the summer, in the autumn, in the region of Bulghar, they joined the
family /of Jochi/, Batu, Orda, Shiban, and Tangqut, who had also been deputed to
that region ... (Raid against the Hungarians)….Thereafter
29
, in the winter, the
princes and emirs gathered together on the River Yaman
30
and sent the emir
Sübedey with an army into the country of the Ās and the region of the Bulghar.
They /themselves/ went as far as the town of Kūy.k.
31
The emirs /of the town/,
Bayan and Chïqu, came and paid homage to the princes. They were received with
honor, but upon their return /Bayan and Chïqu/ again rose in revolt, and Sübedey
Bahadur was sent /against them/ for the second time in order to take them
prisoner.
32
Thereafter the princes held a council, and each with his army set out in an
encircling movement and attacked and conquered the countries which lay across
their path. Möngke Qa’an moved in such a circle upon along the bank of the river
and captured both Bachman, who was one of the chief emirs of those parts, of the
Ülirlik people in the Qipchaq federation, and Qachir-Ukula of the Ās people. This
happened in the following manner. This Bachman together with a number of other
robbers, had escaped from the sword and a further group of fugitives had joined
him. He would strike upon every side and carry something off, and day by day the
mischief he caused grew greater. He had no fixed place of abode, and the Mongol
army could not lay hands on him. In the daytime he used to lie hidden in the forests
on the banks of the Etil. Möngke Qa’an ordered two hundred boats to be
constructed and one hundred fully armed Mongols to be set in each, while he and
his brother formed a hunting ring and proceeded along the banks of the river. In
one of the forest on the Etil they found some dung and other traces of an
encampment that had been hurriedly abandoned. In the middle of this they found
an old woman, from whom they learnt that Bachman had crossed on to an island
and that he had acquired during that period by his wickedness and mischief was on
that island. Because no boats were at hand, it was impossible to cross the Etil, but
suddenly a strong wind arose, the water began to billow, and (it) receded from the
passage leading from the island to the other side; and because of Möngke Qa’an’s
good fortune the bottom became visible. He ordered the troops to ride in. Bachman
was seized and his army destroyed within an hour, some being flung into the river
and some killed outright. The Mongols bore off their wives and children as
prisoners, and they likewise carried off much valuable booty. Then they returned.
29
After describing the campaign against Hungary earlier events were mentioned Minorsky 1952, 228.
30
Yayiq i.e. Ural river cf. Minorsky 1952, 239
31
KWYK, KWXK, KRNK. The identification of the town is debated. Tizengauzen referrred to the Great City
without special explanation. Smirnov after Berezin (1951, 268) reconstructed as Kermenčuk. Fahrutdinov rejected
it as the town was located north of the Kama river whereas Bilyarsk was the greatest centre of the Volga Bulghars
south of the Kama, and Kermenčuk can be dated to the Mongol age (13-15th century) there is no trace of earlier
settelement there. According to Fahrutdinov the term can be read as Turkic kirmen 'town, fortress' (1984, 101-102).
32
The date of the revolt is uncertain cf. Smirnov 1951, 53-54; Fahrutdinov 1984, 100-102.
The water began to move, and when the troops had crossed, it was back again
without one soldier’s having suffered harm. When Bachman was brought before
Möngke Qa’an, he bagged to be put to death by the latter’s own hand. Instead
Möngke ordered his younger brother Böchek to cut him in half. Qachir-Ukula, the
Ās emir, was likewise put to death. That summer Möngke remained in that region.
Then in the taqïqu yïl,that is, the Year of the Hen, falling in the months of the
year 634 (1236-7/, the sons of Jochi Khan, Batu, Orda, and Berke, the sons of
Qa’an, Qadan and Güyük Khan, as also Möngke Qa’an, the grandson of Chaghatai
Khan, Büri, and the son of Chingiz-Khan, Kölgen, went to war against the Boqshi
and Burtas and conquered them in a short space of time.”
33
Julianus, Juwainī and Rashīd al-Dīn proves that the left wing of the Mongol
army under Mengü and Böchek marched against Bachman who must have been the
chief of the Kipchak tribes along the lower Volga in the winter of 1236-37 and the
Mongols conquered the steppe region between the Volga and the Don. After
defeating the Volga Bulghars the other Mongol princes, their western and south-
western neighbours i.e the Mordvas and the Burtas were subdued. The Mongols
reached the borders of the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal.
The Hungarian friar, Julianus was in Suzdal in 1237 and he copied a Mongol
letter written to the king of Hungary, which was confiscated by the grand duke of
Suzdal. Among others it is stated: „Further, I have learned that you keep the
Cumans, my slaves, under your protection. Whence I charge you that
henceforward you do not keep them with you, and that you do not make me your
enemy on their account.”
34
The Mongols regarded the reception of the
Cumans/Kipchaks as a hostile act. The Cumans on the lower Danube under prince
Borc embraced Christianity and became the subject of the Hungarian king with his
people in 1227 and a Cuman episcopacy was founded and the Hungarian king took
the title Rex Cumaniae from 1229.
35
It can be regarded a crucial motive for the
later Mongol invasion against the Hungarian Kingdom.
The Kievan Rus’ was not a centralized political unit, several principalities
flourished. The most powerful principality was that of Vladimir-Suzdal in the
north-east controlling Novgorod. The south-western part of Russia was unstable, as
the royal families of Smolensk, Chernigov and Volynia–Galich fougt for
supremacy over Kiev symbolizing the control over Russia.
The Mongols conquered Russia in two different phases. The attack against
north-eastern Russia was a complicated task, which was perfectly planned. In
winter 1237-38 the Mongols conquered the principilty sieging its main cities:
Rjazan’ on 16-21 December 1237, Vladimir on 3-7 February 1938 and defeating
the grand duke in the battle on the river Sit’ on 4 March. The Principality of
Vladimir-Suzdal, the most powerful state of Russia was totally defeated and the
Mongols left the territory of the principality in spring and arrived in the steppe of
the Kipchaks.
The next two years the Mongols first had to secure their further invasions by
seizing the steppe region and then they had to pacify the peoples of the northern
33
Ali-Zade 1980, 128-133; Boyle 1971, 57-59; Verhovskij 1960, 37-38; Thackston 1999, 326-327.
34
Sinor 1999,11.
35
Balogh 2001, 149-160; Kovács 2005, 55-66.
Caucasus. Rashīd al-Dīn recorded the events of 1238: “in the autumn, Möngke
Qa’an and Qadan proceeded against the Cherkes and, in winter their king, Tuqar
(Tūqār
36
) by name, was killed. Shiban, Böchek and Büri proceeded against the
region of Qirim and conquered Tatqara of the Qipchaq people. Berke proceeded
against the Qipchaq and captured Arjumaq, Quranmas, and Qiran (Arjumāk,
Qūrānb/mās, Qap/tarān), the leader of the Mekrüti (B/Makrūti).”
37
The Mongols
first attacked the Cherkes in the Kuban region east of the Black Sea. Moving
westward they crossed Perekop, the gate of the Crimea defeated the Kipchaks of
the Crimea and captured Sugdak (Sudak) on the coast on 26 December.
38
Besides,
the Mongols attacked the Kipchaks living in the steppe from the lower Dnepr to
the Dnestr. The Mongol raid against the Kipchaks provoked the western migration
of the fourth Cuman ruler, Küten with his people (40 000) to the territory of the
Hungarian kingdom, as the Hungarian king Béla IV reset the Kipchaks after having
been baptized to strengthen his position against his internal opponents and as
useful auxiliary troops against the threatening Mongols.
39
After the successful campaign against the Caucasus in the winter of 1239-1240
the Mongols made a banquet and Möngke and Güyük with their armies were
ordered to return to the great Khan to Mongolia. The remaining Mongol army
under Batu continued the campaign against Kiev, which was sieged on 6th
December 1240. Then the Mongol army conquered Galych and Volhynia. The
Mongol central army crossed the Verecke Pass in the Carpathian Mountains, the
gate of the Hungarian Kingdom from the East on 12 March and they annihilated
the border protection. A Mongol patrol reached in the vicinity of Pest on the
Danube. The Kipchaks under Küten had to face serious challenge as the opponents
of the Hungarian king accused the Kipchaks with cooperation with the Mongols
and the mob massacred Küten and his revenue in Pest. The Kipchaks having heard
of the murder left the country along the Danube to northern Bulgaria.
40
The Hungarian king, Béla IV. Led his army to the river Sajó and he was totally
beaten by the Mongols near village Muhi on 11 April 1241. The Mongols crossed
the Danube in the winter 1241-1242 and perhaps the death of Ögödey in December
1241 was among the main reason that the Mongol army retreated from the
Hungarian Kinngdom following the lower Danube.
Rashīd al-Dīn noted that during their march they met Kipchaks: “The news of
Qa’an death had not reached them. Then in the Year of the Leopard, a number of
Qipchaq had come to fight with Köten (Kūtan
41
) and Shingqur, the son of Jochi.
They gave battle and the Qipchaq were defeated. In the autumn they returned again
and passed into the region of Temür-Qahalqa (Tīmūr Qahalqa
42
) and the
36
Var: Būqār, Būqān.
37
Ali-Zade 1980, 136-137; Boyle 1971, 60; Verhovskij 1960, 39; Thackston 1999, 327; cf. Golden 1995-1997,
116).
38
Spuler 1943, 19.
39
Polgár 1999, 91-102; Balogh 2001, 53-61.
40
Göckenjan, Sweeney 1985, 141-142,157-159; Pálóci-Horváth 1989, 48-51.
41
Var: Kūs. Köten, the second son of Ögödey. The identification with the Cuman chief Köten is hard to defend as he
was killed in 1241 in Pest (Boyle 1971, 71 note 350).
42
The Iron Gate is the name of several passes. According to the geographical context the Iron Gate of the lower
Danube in the vicinity of Orsova is mentioned here.
mountains of those parts. They gave an army to Ila’udur (Aylāwdūr
43
) and
dispatched him against them. He proceeded thither and defeated the Qipchaq, who
had fled to that region. They subjugated the Urungqut (Ūrunkqūt
44
) and Badach
(Bādāğ
45
) and brought (back) their envoys. The whole of that year was passed in
that region. In the beginning of the taulai yil, that is, the Year of the Hare,
corresponding to the months of the year 640/1242-1243, having completed the task
of conquering that country, they returned their ulus in the mogha yil, that is, the
Year of the Snake, corresponding to the months of the year 641/1243-1244, and
alighted in their own ordos. And God best knows the truth.”
46
The Mongol central army led by Batu left the Carpathian Basin in spring of
1242 along the Danube, while the Mongol princes conquering Transylvania
marched along the river Olt toward Bulgaria. Thence most of the Mongol princes
returned to their homeland. Batu and his family settled on the rivers of the South
Russian steppe. Plano Carpini described the Cuman territory (terra Comanorum)
in his journey across the steppe of Eastern Europe in 1245. He mentioned four
rivers, Dnepr, Don, Volga and Ural, whose both banks were used as migrating way
for the Mongol elite.
47
Batu moved along the Volga and it became the centre of the
Golden Horde, which determined the fate of Eastern Europe in the next two
centuries.
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