Editing Tokhtamysh (section)

==Death==
[[File:Facial Chronicle - b.12, p.105 - Murder of Tokhtamysh.gif|thumb|Shādī Beg kills Tokhtamysh]]
Reduced to the position of an adventurer, Tokhtamysh made his way across the territory of the Golden Horde to its peripheral Siberian possessions. Here he succeeded in bringing parts of the area under his control in 1400, and by 1405 was attempting to ingratiate himself with his protector-turned-enemy, Timur, who had just quarreled with Edigu. Timur's death in February 1405 made any rapprochement moot. Throughout this period, Tokhtamysh naturally attracted the hostility of Edigu and his new puppet khan, [[Shadi Beg|Shādī Beg]]. Edigu is said to have fought Tokhtamysh on sixteen separate occasions between 1400 and 1406; in the final instance, after a reverse at the hands of Tokhtamysh, Edigu spread a rumor about his own death to draw Tokhtamysh out into the open and have him killed in a hail of darts and spears, late in 1406, near [[Tyumen]]. Khan Shādī Beg apparently claimed or was given credit for the death of Tokhtamysh, while others credited Edigu or Edigu's son Nūr ad-Dīn.<ref>Howorth 1880: 262; Grousset 1970: 443; Seleznëv 2009: 185; Počekaev 2010: 176–177.</ref> Russian chroniclers recorded his death in 1406:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rasputin |first1=Valentin |title=Siberia, Siberia |date=29 October 1997 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=978-0-8101-1575-0 |page=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzchffZ3BFQC |language=en}}</ref>

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{{lang|ru|Тое же зимы царь Женибек уби Тактамыша в Сибирскои земли близ Тюмени, а сам седе на Орде.}}
That same winter, tsar Shadi Beg killed Tokhtamysh in the Siberian lands near Tyumen, and he himself sat on [the throne of] the Horde.<ref>{{cite book |title=Полное собрание русских летописей |date=1982 |page=82 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVRpAAAAMAAJ |language=ru}}</ref>
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