Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)

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The Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570) or Don-Volga-Astrakhan campaign of 1569 (referred to in Ottoman sources as the Astrakhan Expedition) was a war between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire over the Astrakhan Khanate. It was the first of twelve Russo-Turkish wars ending with World War I in 1914–18. In the 1550s, Russia conquered the Khanate of Astrakhan, expanding into the North Caucasus, which the Ottoman Empire, and especially their ally and vassal, the Crimean Khanate, regarded as part of their sphere of interest. The Crimean Tatars had been at war with Russia for a long time, but the operation that the Ottoman Empire had been considering for years did not begin until the summer of 1569, when a military expedition composed of Turks and Crimean Tatars began its march to the area between the Don and Volga rivers. An integral part of the military expedition was a plan to dig a canal connecting the rivers which, once completed, would allow the former Khanate of Astrakhan to be captured...

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