Ryazan’s Last Stand Against the Mongols

A Russian prince told the Mongol Empire to drop dead and it sparked a massacre that wiped

his city off the map. It’s December 1237 and Batu Khan rolls up to Ryazan with

an unstoppable horde demanding tribute. Prince Yuriy hits back with the hardest line in history

saying if none of us are left then it will all be yours. He wasn't bluffing. The Mongols unleashed

catapults and biological warfare, burning the city to ash in five days. But then,

a soldier named Evpaty Kolovrat comes home to find everyone dead. Instead of running,

he grabs a few survivors and launches a suicide mission so fierce that even the Mongol Khan paused to respect

his bravery. Ryazan fell because they stood alone, but it proves that even when the odds