After the collapse of the Golden Horde in the mid-15th century, the Kazan Khanate became Russia's eastern neighbor. In the 15th and the first half of the 16th centuries, the Kazan forces conducted devastating raids on Russian lands, seizing loot and...
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On October 2, 1552, the young king Ivan Vasiljevic (then not very Grove, but already very promising) finally did what neither his father nor his grandfather could, took Kazan, and he did so with such an engineering dimension that the Kazakhs, frankly, simply did not understand, "What was that?"