Timur defeats Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Kondurcha

1391

On the Volga steppe, Timur shattered the army of the Golden Horde khan who had dared to challenge his supremacy. The victory broke the Horde's military power and opened the Russian principalities to a century of fragmentation. Moscow, ironically, would be the long-term beneficiary of Timur's destruction of its overlord.