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#redroom #history #battleonthekalka The Battle of the Kalka River is one of the most famous battles in the history of Rus', and it is all the more interesting because it was far from successful. In addition to the battle itself, there is a lot of interesting stuff in this story: how did the Mongols and Russian princes even meet a decade before Batu's invasion, what were the relations between Rus' and the Polovtsians, did the Battle of the Kalka really become an example of unprecedented cooperation between a wide variety of Russian principalities, and finally, what consequences did this battle leave behind? Today we are talking about all of the above, as well as all the funny things in the history of the Battle of the Kalka - the first contact between medieval Rus' and the Mongol Empire. Subedei and Jebe versus Mstislav the Bold and Khan Kotyan, choose your fighter. Links: Subscribe to Instagram - / red_room_limb Patreon for minted coin - / redroomlimb Follow videos on VK - https://vk.com/redroom_video Host: Egor Zyryanov Screenplay: Egor Zyryanov, Vsevolod Zinkevich Camera operator, editor, animation artist - Alena Pashko Character design and animation - Yulia Soludanova Signature track: Alexander Zender Films used: Yaroslav the Wise BBC: Genghis Khan Ilya Muromets The Legend of Princess Olga