Edigu

Edigu was from the Crimean Manghit tribe, the son of Kutlukiya (Kuttykiya), a Turko-Mongol noble who was defeated and killed by Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in 1378.

By 1396, he was a sovereign ruler of a large area stretching between the Volga and Ural (known locally as Yayyk) rivers, which would later be called the Nogai Horde.

In 1408, he staged a destructive Tatar invasion of Russia due to tribute not being paid in several decades, leading to Vasily I of Moscow to end fighting against Lithuania.

However, Edigu managed to ravage Kiev under Lithuanian rule in spring 1416, in which he burnt the Pechersk Monastery and the old town, but was unable to capture its castle.

Edigu's dynasty in the Nogai Horde continued for about two centuries, until his last descendants moved to Moscow, where they took baptism and became known as Princes Urusov and Yusupov.