Battle of the Sozhitsya River (1078)

The Battle of Sozhitsya is the battle that took place on August 25, 1078, on the Sozhitsya River, between the Russian army of Prince Vinnitsa Chernigov and the Polovtsian Army of the Union of Oleg Sviatoslavich and Boris Vyacheslavich, the rogue princes. Mentioned in The Tale of Bygone Years. It ended with the defeat of the Chernihivs.

Description
The reason for the war between Oleg and Boris against Vsevolod was their claims to the paternal legacy. Oleg sought to take the Chernigov prince's table, and Boris - Smolensk.

On April 10, 1078, Oleg fled from Vsevolodnoy residence in Chernigov and went to Tmutorokan, where his brother Roman Sviatoslavich ruled. He made an alliance with Boris and Polovtsy, and, with brotherly support, moved to Russia, against Vsevolod.

The prince of Chernigov made his enemies and met them on August 25 on the river Sozhitsa (the exact place is not localized, most likely - Orzhitsa in the Poltava region [1] ). There was a battle in which the prince-outcasts, after the decisive participation of Polovtsy, broke the Chernihivs. In the battle, the inevitable Ivan Zhryslavovich, Pori , Tuk boyar , the brother of Chudinov, as well as many ordinary soldiers died.

After the victory, the victor Oleg, Boris and Polovtsy moved to Chernihiv, whose inhabitants took the side of the winners [2]. Vsevolod went to ask for help to his elder brother, prince of Kiev, Izyaslav Yaroslavich.

Heathan Chronicle [3]		Translation [4] In the middle of the year. ҂s҂. Fu pwas [6586 (1078)] Bijaž Ѡлегъ сн҃ъ Stksaoslavl. Tmortokan ѿ Vsevolod. mts҃a andthe l̑. in ı҃ daytime

... khg daytime I will bring him to Styopolk in Novgorod. I dream of Izlaslavlyu. Ripple with the Holy Ghost. and Volodymyr with the Holy Smolensk. Boris will bring the poor to the Rus' land. and poodosta on Vsevolod from Polovtsy. Vsevolod is also against him and (ma) on Szhizci. and the Polovtsy Rawstwist. and many of the oubeni bjisha toou. оубьенъ быı с̑ ту Ivan Zhryslavlych. and Tyuky Chyudyn wall t̑. Porya and ini many. mzbaa august somehow daytime

Boris is the same. give to Chernigov More ... and the land of evil creating many Ruskoy m̑. blood is cross bloodthirst ѥӕ the blood swallows B'҃. ѿ hand eӕ The date is for the deaths of the Cross.

In the year 6586 [1078]. Flee Oleg, son of Svyatoslav, to Tmutorokanya from Vsevolod in the month of April on the tenth day.

... When Svyatopolk, the son of Iziaslavov sat in Novgorod, Yaropolk [Izyaslavych] sat in Vyshgorod instead of Novgorod, while Vladimir [Vsevolodovich] sat in Smolensk, Oleg and Boris brought Ottomans to the n land, and both of them went with the Polovtsians to Vsevolod. Vsevolod then opposed them on the [river] of Sozhits, and the Polovtsi Rus were defeated, and many were murdered here: there was murdered here [voivod] Ivan Zhiroslavich, and [boyar] Tuki, Chudin's brother, and [the governor] of the Seasons, and many other moons August on the twenty-fifth day.

Oleg and Boris came to Chernihiv, thinking that they had overcome. But to them, which Russian lands did much evil, shedding Christian blood, [it was necessary to find out] that the blood of their hands would be borne by the god, it was possible to give a victim of the dead soul of the Christian.