Lecture 9: The Mongol invasion

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course.

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023 at the University of Toronto, where he holds the professorial Chair of Ukrainian Studies and is a history and political science professor. He is also a Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Magocsi, one of the world’s leading experts on Ukraine, explores this fascinating country in all its complexity, from its history, culture, geography, politics, and multi-ethnic composition. The lectures are an important counterweight to Russian propaganda and explain Ukraine’s importance to global security today.

Time stamps are available for each lecture. Auto-translate is available in Ukrainian, major European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish.

Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.

All the lectures are available on YouTube here.

1:21 Capture of Kyiv in 1169 by the allies of Prince Andrei Bogoliubskii of Vladimir-Suzdal' as depicted in the 15th-century Radziwill Chronicle
2:04 Andrei Bogoliubskii
6:03 Nomadic peoples, steppe, Kyivan-Rus'
6:16 Kyiv attacked by the Polovtsians in 1096
6:20 Volodymyr Monomakh
7:14 Polovtsian camp during military campaign
10:08 The Mongol Invasions map
22:52 Tatars from the Golden Horde leading away captives (slaves) following an attack against Galicia-Volhynia
31:03 The Golden Horde map
33:08 The Mongol invasion of Kyiv Rus' as depicted in the 16th-century manuscript, the "Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible"
36:27 Old Saray, New Saray map
37:45 Italianate era in Ukraine, Genoese and Venetian bankers and merchants built trading centres in Crimea
38:27 Genoese merchants in Caffa, Crimea (today Feodosiia)
39:47 The Genoese Crimean port of Caffa (today Feodosiia)
42:22 Sudak/Soldaia. Genoese fortress (1365–1475)

For further information, you may wish to consult: A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (University of Toronto Press, 2010)

Robert Paul Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada, September 2023.