The Tale of the Battle with Mamai

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| name = The Tale of the Battle with Mamai

| title_orig = Сказание о Мамаевом побоище

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| image = The Tale of Mamai's Debacle (GIM, 17 c.) by shakko.jpg

| caption = 17th century manuscript in the State Historical Museum, Moscow

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| country = Russia

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| release_date = 15th century

| subject = Battle of Kulikovo

| native_wikisource = Сказание о Мамаевом побоище

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The Tale of the Battle with Mamai ({{langx|ru|Сказание о Мамаевом побоище|Skazaniye o Mamayevom poboishche}}), also translated as The Tale of the Battle Against Mamai,{{sfn|Bulanin|2021|page=449|loc=The Tale of the Battle against Mamai never ceases to attract the attention of professional historians and amateurs as the most detailed and the most colorful story about the Battle of Kulikovo}} is a Russian literary work about the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. The first version was likely produced in the 15th century,{{cite book |last1=Ciževskij |first1=Dmitrij |title=History of Russian Literature: From the Eleventh Century to the End of the Baroque |date=18 February 2013 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-087101-2 |page=197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWEjAAAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Crummey |first1=Robert O. |title=The Formation of Muscovy 1300 - 1613 |date=6 June 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-87200-9 |page=192 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MMwFBAAAQBAJ |language=en}} although some recent studies suggest that it was written in the early 16th century.{{sfn|Bulanin|2021|pages=449–450|loc=...since the Tale is a late source, which, according to recent studies, was written not earlier than the first quarter of the sixteenth century}} It belongs to the Kulikovo cycle of works, along with the Chronicle Account of the Battle with Mamai and Zadonshchina.{{cite book |last1=Terras |first1=Victor |title=Handbook of Russian Literature |date=1 January 1985 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-04868-1 |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjKh2gkCudAC |language=en |quote=This Discourse is connected thematically, though not formally, with the Chronicle Account of the Battle with Mamai... and the Tale of the Battle with Mamai... Together with the Zadonshchina, the latter two works form what is conventionally called the 'Kulikovo Cycle'.}}

The Tale starts with the following:

{{blockquote|I want to tell you, brethren, about the battles of the recent war, about how the battle on the Don between Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich and all Orthodox Christians and the infidel Mamai and the godless sons of Hagar [Muslims] came about.{{cite book |last1=Galeotti |first1=Mark |title=Kulikovo 1380: The battle that made Russia |date=21 February 2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4728-3122-4 |page=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U290DwAAQBAJ |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Isoaho |first1=Mari |authorlink=Mari Isoaho |title=The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia: Warrior and Saint |date=1 June 2006 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-474-0949-6 |page=258 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tRJYEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}}}