Crimean invasion of Russia (1521)

Invasion of Muscovy
Part of Russo-Crimean Wars

Tatar invasion of Russia in 1521
Date1521
Location
Result

Crimean coalition victory

  • Khan lost the Vasily's charter and Muscovy got rid of its tributary status
Belligerents
Crimean Khanate
Ottoman Empire
Zaporozhian Cossacks
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Nogai Horde
Khanate of Kazan
Circassians
Principality of Moscow
Commanders and leaders
Mehmed I Giray
Suleiman I
Ostap Dashkevych
Sahib I Giray
Vasily III
Ivan Andreevich Sheremetyev 
Vladimir Mikhailovich Karamyshev-Kurbsky 
Yuri Mikhailovich Zamyatnin 
Yakov Mikhailovich Zamyatnin 
Fyodor Vasilyevich Lopata-Obolensky (POW)
Ivan Khabar-Simsky
Units involved

100,000
Modern sources:
30,000–35,000

  • 20,000–25,000
  • 300
35,000–40,000 or 50,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown Heavy
~30,000 enslaved

The Invasion of Muscovy occurred in the year 1521. The invasion of Muscovy was led by Mehmed I Giray of the Crimean Khanate, a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.