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I haven't been able to find one single reference to that battle of Siny Vody that you mention.
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It's known as the Blue Waters river battle. The Blue Waters river is located in Western Ukraine.
The battle was probably 10 times less significant than the Kulikovo battle, taking into account reports of casualities. It was not viewed as a great event by chroniclers. It's also known that the Hordes' forces offered little resistance, being scattered and desorganized.
In this battle a Russian (Belarussian/Lithuanian) army defeated forces of three local Tatar princes and took the formal control over Central-Western and Central-Northern Ukraine. Before it the territory was a part of a Tatar Khanate. After the battle it became a dependent territory, like Moscow Rus, and had to pay tribut to Tatars.
It's what our Ukrainian friends do not like to mention: unlike Ukraine, Russia never was a part of any Tatar state. Tatar princes were ruling Ukraine and living there, surrounded by hordes of Tatars, intermixing with local population.
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: I have to admit, though, that
my eyes are peculiar. In my brother and sisters the "slant" is not so pronounced.
And I have a skew nose. :-) Bodily hair is light brown to reddish brown, and sometimes blondish. I
had golden blond hair
as a young boy.