
1.115 - Then There Were Five
After decades in decline, the Horde breaks up into new khanates.
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After decades in decline, the Horde breaks up into new khanates.

Jogaila’s death means that Poland also has to choose a successor. The situation gets complicated.

The death of Vytautas with no clear successor lined up gives Jogaila another headache.

Jogaila gets himself a young wife and finally has a son, while Sigismund of Luxembourg comes up with an interesting proposal for Vyatautas.

After Yuri Dmitryevich’s death, his sons make their own bids for the throne of Moscow.

With the death of Vasily I, Moscow sees its first contested succession in generations.

Following their success at Tannenburg, Jogaila and Vytautas enter another agreement, this time more or less as equals. Does it create a genu...

Jogaila and Vytautas finally manage to work together, leading to a game changing battle with the Teutonic Order.

Vasily tries not paying tribute while Edigu is distracted, but gets caught out. Vytautas and Jogaila reach a new agreement.

Timur’s defeat of Toqtamish and ravaging of the Horde’s territory is often referred to as the end of the Horde. But that’s not quite the cas...

The three rulers of Moscow, Lithuania and the Horde find themselves in a period of cooperation. It does not end as well as they might have h...

Taking the crown of Poland gives Jogaila a new problem - how to govern Lithuania.

With his own baptism, marriage, and coronation out of the way, Jogaila moves on to the other parts of his deal.

When Algirdas dies, he leaves his heir several problems. Their neighbors in Poland also have problems. Maybe they can help each other.

Dmitry Donskoy finds out that his victory was rather Pyrrhic.

Was the Battle of Kulikovo the beginning of liberation from the Mongols?

The stand off with Mamai reaches its inevitable conclusion and Dmitry of Moscow earns himself a new name.

As the Anarchy gets underway in the Horde, the Mamai, the commander of the western wing, tries to make himself the power behind the throne.

Metropolitan Aleksey helps Ivan’s son Dmitry claim his father’s throne, but faces new challenges to his own authority..

Meanwhile in Lithuania, Gediminas divides his realm among his seven sons.