Siege of Dorpat (1558)
| Siege of Dorpat | |||||||||
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| Part of the Livonian War | |||||||||
Dorpat on an engraving of the middle of the 16th century | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Livonian Confederation | Tsardom of Russia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Herman Weyland | Petr Shuisky | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 2,000 Mercenaries |
8,000–40,000 total
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Light 700 cannons and 60,000 thalers | Light | ||||||||
The siege of Dorpat (Estonian: Drepti Piiramine; Russian: Осада Дрепта) was a Russian siege of the Livonian city of Dorpat (in modern-day eastern Estonia) from July 1558, during the Livonian War.