Evpati Kolovrat

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Monument to Kolovrat in Ryazan

Evpati Kolowrat by Maximilian Presnjakow

Jewpati (or Eupatios) Kolowrat ( Russian Евпатий Коловрат ; * approx. 1200; † 1238) was a Russian boyars and general from the Principality of Ryazan . He is a hero of the old Russian literary work called The Legend of the Devastation of Ryazan by Batu , which tells of the Mongol invasion of the Rus .

When the Mongols under Batu Khan began their campaign against the Russian principalities in 1237, Ryazan was the first principality on their way. Evpati Kolowrat was staying in Chernigov at this point . After learning of the Mongol siege of Ryazan, he put together a small band of several hundred fighters and rushed to the aid of his hometown. When he found it already devastated, however, he swore revenge to the death. He expanded his association to include a few survivors from the surrounding area and took up the pursuit of the Mongol army with around 1700 men. He caught up with it near Suzdal and destroyed the Mongolian rearguard with a surprise attack. Batu Khan sent his wife's brother, Chostowrul, against Kolowrat and ordered that Kolowrat be brought to him alive. However, despite a large numerical superiority, Khostovrul could not defeat Kolowrat and was killed in the fight against him.

Batu Khan sent an envoy to Kolowrat and asked what he wanted. The answer was: "Just die!". Only with the help of their many stone-throwing catapults could the Mongols ultimately defeat the surrounded Russians. According to legend, Batu Khan was so impressed by Kolowrat's courage to death that he gave his body to the few surviving Russians and let them go.

Kolowrat was a hero of several orally transmitted folk songs as well as some modern literary works. Nikolai Jasykow , Lev Mei and Sergei Jessenin dedicated her poems to him . In 2017, the film The Last Warriors was released in Russia .

reception

The Russian historical film Легенда о Коловрате , deutsch  Die last Krieger , (2017) with Ilya Sergejewitsch Malakow in the role of Evpati Kolowrat, and Alexander Alexandrovich Iljin in another leading role, takes up the saga and interprets it.

literature

• Adolf Stender-Petersen. The history of Russian literature. CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 5th edition, Munich, 1993. p. 156

Web links

Commons : Jewpati Kolowrat  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The last warrior in the Internet Movie Database (English)