The Mongol Yoke, 1237 to 1480, is the traditional Russian historiographical name for the period of Mongol and Tatar domination over the Rus principalities following the Mongol conquest, during which local Russian princes ruled as tributary vassals of the Golden Horde, the westernmost Mongol successor khanate, traveling to its capital to receive formal confirmation of their authority. The period saw the rise of Moscow as the leading Rus principality, partly through its rulers' skill in serving as the Horde's own tax collectors among the other principalities, laying the political and territorial foundation for the later unified Russian state. Mongol suzerainty ended in 1480 at the bloodless Great Standing on the Ugra River, when Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow openly refused further tribute and the Horde, weakened by its own internal divisions, withdrew without a fight.
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