{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/ae214237-27e8-43d6-b343-3c5facba584a/68699dbfa5162e9423bbf03b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"76.5 Battle of Lake Peipus 1242, Teutonic Knights vs Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/620e4d74bbc3136c1d1225d9/1751752208015-776eb721-eece-4ea3-8d22-933cc61c1342.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The Battle of Lake Peipus or 'The Battle on the Ice' was fought on 5th April 1242 between a coalition of western crusaders led by the Teutonic Knights against an army from Novgorod, Russia, led by Alexander Nevsky. The conflict was made famous by a Soviet film of 1938 directed by Sergei Eisenstein.</p><p>This is the fifth and final part of a set of episodes on the Medieval Baltic and the Northern Crusades</p>","author_name":"Carl Rylett"}