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Topic: Russo-Kazan Wars: Wars of Vasily III

Russo-Kazan Wars: Wars of Vasily III

Years: 1521 - 1541

A new massacre of Russian merchants and envoys residing in Kazan takes place in 1521.

Vasily III is so enraged that he forbids his subjects to visit the Kazan Fair again.

Instead, the famous Makariev Fair is inaugurated downstream from Nizhny Novgorod, an establishment which undermines the economical prosperity of Kazan, thus contributing to its eventual downfall.

"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."

—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)