This led to the collapse of the plan to partition the Polish–Lithuanian state between Moscow and the Habsburgs, which caused Ivan IV to undertake the last, decisive and "great" campaign of 1577.
[1] After receiving false information that the entire army was approaching the Dnieper, the Russians fled in panic when they saw 300 light cavalry[6] along with Temryk Szymkowicz's and Krzysztof Radziwiłł's rotas arrive.
[2] There are many accounts of the Battle of Mogilev, including one given by Lieutenant Markowice:[2] They burned down several hundred houses of Your Majesty's Mogilev, but due to the large number of people they did not squeeze into the city and Mogilev's castle, but with God's help, Your Majesty's soldiers, the troop of Mr. Trogski [Krzysztof Radziwiłł], Mr. Kazanowski and Mr. Temrukow, who had gathered at that time, repelled them and defended the castle and the city, and had a battle with them.Another account of the battle was also completed by Father Jan Piotrowski:[2] Today, Markowski, lieutenant of Kazanowski's unit, came from here; this brought about that on 27 June, from Moscow to Mohylov, as he says, about 30,000 people also came from Tartars, probably a wicked and trivial people, so that they could choose Mogilev, and Kazanowski's troop itself, without a captain, having heard about them, had previously arrived there with one 200 horses ; Our men chased them for seven hours that day, so that they were not allowed to approach the city.
I suspect it was the same near Mogilev.He further continued this by saying:[8] I think that near Mogilev the hussars fought in a loose formation, trying to do battles in the suburbs rather than classic charges.
As it turns out, however, the hussars were also well-prepared for this, because they were excellent with melee weapons, they were professional soldiers who had been learning how to fight all their lives and, above all, were aware of their value, which cannot be said about the random crew who wanted to occupy Mogilev.