Siege of Fellin (1560) 1560
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Year | 1560 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
|---|---|---|
| Era | Early modern (1500–1799) | derived from year |
| Location | Estonia | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Livonian War | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Aleksei Fedorovich Adashev, Andrey Kurbsky, Ivan Mstislavsky, Johann Wilhelm von Fürstenberg, Livonian confederation, Tsardom of Russia | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 58.3633, 25.5956 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The siege of Fellin was one of the final events that took place in August 1560 during the Russo-Livonian War. Besiegers used artillery fire exclusively to capture the strong fortress.
In July 1560, the Russian army marched on the Fellin fortress, the Livonian knights tried to resist it in the field, but they were defeated in the battle of Erms. On 17 August, the fortress was besieged and after three days of "hellish" shelling, it surrendered. As a result of this siege, the entire Livonian order actually disintegrated and was divided between its closest neighbors - Lithuanians, Poles, Swedes and Russians.
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