Blue Horde
State · 1363–1449 CE · at its largest around 1363 CE
One of the wings of the Golden Horde, a term applied to part of the Jochid realm in the Pontic-Caspian steppe; historians disagree over whether it denotes the western or eastern half.
On its lands while it lasted
- Chufut-Kale (500–1490 CE): Capital of Crimean Khanate (1450–1490).
- Battle of Kulikovo (1380 CE): Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow defeated a Golden Horde army under Mamai, the first major Russian victory over the Horde.
- Rublev’s Trinity (c. 1425 CE): Andrei Rublev painted the three angels who visited Abraham as an image of the Trinity, for the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius near Moscow. It is the most celebrated of all Russian icons.
- Ivan III (1440 CE – 1505 CE): Grand Prince of Moscow who gathered the Russian lands, annexed Novgorod and ended the Golden Horde's overlordship.
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