MuscovyWars and battles
Battle of Orsha
The Lithuanian and Polish army of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski defeated the Russian army of the voivodes Ivan Chelyadnin and Mikhail Bulgakov-Golitsa near Orsha.
- Date
- 8 September 1514exact dateDate in the Julian calendar
- Place
- Orshatoday: Orsha, Belarus · Eastern Europe
- Participants
- Konstanty Ostrogski, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Grand Duchy of Moscow
- Threads
- Muscovy
The victory remained a tactical one: the Lithuanians failed to recover the recently lost Smolensk, and their gains were limited to a few border fortresses. King Sigismund I, however, made wide use of it in propaganda across Europe to restore his shaken prestige.
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- Capture of Smolensk (1514)between 30 July and 1 August 1514 · Eastern Europethe campaign aimed to recover Smolensk
Related events
- Battle of Vedrosha14 July 1500 · Eastern EuropeHetman Ostrogski, taken prisoner at Vedrosha, escaped to Lithuania in 1507 and in 1514 defeated the Russian army at Orsha
Adjacent events in the thread
- Coronation of Ivan IV as tsar16 January 1547 · Eastern Europe
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