Comparison of the raids of the Polovtsians and the Mongol Tatars to the Russian lands.

Polovtsi are different steppe Turkic tribes who lived in the Wild Field. Having united among themselves from 1061 to 1610, they raided Russia. Limiting themselves to robberies, they ravaged cities, plundered, beat the population and took them into slavery. The internecine wars of the Russians did not make it possible to get rid of the raids of nomadic tribes. Many tribes participated in these strife taking one of the sides. Prince Igor’s campaign against the Polovtsians put an end to their systematic raids. The steppe inhabitants were not defeated by the prince in 1185, but the Cumans community was split. Many of them converted to Christianity and assimilated into the local population. By the middle of the 13th century, the Polovtsian people were captured by Batu, lost their independence and became a subject of the Golden Horde. Having replenished the tumens of Batu, the Polovtsy moved together with the Mongols to Kiev.

Having ruined the Volga Bulgaria, having conquered the Polovtsian, the Mongols moved to Russia. Conquering one after another Russian principalities by 1237, the Mongols became the masters of these lands. The Mongols ravaged the cities and only ruins remained in their place, the inhabitants were brutally exterminated. The surviving population was driven into slavery. Russia fell into the dependence of the Golden Horde for many years. For two and a half centuries, Russia paid tribute to the Mongols.