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The Tale of the Battle with Mamai

17th century manuscript in the State Historical Museum, Moscow
Original title	Сказание о Мамаевом побоище
Subject	Battle of Kulikovo
Publication date	15th century
Publication place	Russia
Original text	Сказание о Мамаевом побоище at Russian Wikisource

The Tale of the Battle with Mamai (Russian: Сказание о Мамаевом побоище, romanized: Skazaniye o Mamayevom poboishche), also translated as The Tale of the Battle Against Mamai, is a Russian literary work about the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. The first version was likely produced in the 15th century, although some recent studies suggest that it was written in the early 16th century. It belongs to the Kulikovo cycle of works, along with the Chronicle Account of the Battle with Mamai and Zadonshchina.

The Tale starts with the following:

I want to tell you, brethren, about the battles of the recent war, about how the battle on the Don between Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich and all Orthodox Christians and the infidel Mamai and the godless sons of Hagar came about.

References

1. Bulanin 2021, p. 449, The Tale of the Battle against Mamai never ceases to attract the attention of professional historians and amateurs as the most detailed and the most colorful story about the Battle of Kulikovo.
2. Ciževskij, Dmitrij (18 February 2013). History of Russian Literature: From the Eleventh Century to the End of the Baroque. Walter de Gruyter. p. 197. ISBN 978-3-11-087101-2.
3. Crummey, Robert O. (6 June 2014). The Formation of Muscovy 1300 - 1613. Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-317-87200-9.
4. Bulanin 2021, pp. 449–450, ...since the Tale is a late source, which, according to recent studies, was written not earlier than the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
5. Terras, Victor (1 January 1985). Handbook of Russian Literature. Yale University Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-300-04868-1. This Discourse is connected thematically, though not formally, with the Chronicle Account of the Battle with Mamai... and the Tale of the Battle with Mamai... Together with the Zadonshchina, the latter two works form what is conventionally called the 'Kulikovo Cycle'.
6. Galeotti, Mark (21 February 2019). Kulikovo 1380: The battle that made Russia. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4728-3122-4.
7. Isoaho, Mari (1 June 2006). The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia: Warrior and Saint. BRILL. p. 258. ISBN 978-90-474-0949-6.

Bibliography

• Bulanin, Dmitrij M. (25 August 2021). The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe. Routledge. pp. 449–464. ISBN 978-1-000-41745-6.
• Charles J. Halperin, “Some Observations on Interpolations in the Skazanie o Mamaevom poboishche,” International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics 23 (1981) : 97–100.

• Early modern Russian literature
• 15th-century manuscripts