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Polovtsy attack Kiev and burn Pecherskii Monastery

• Svyatopolk and Vladimir then marched forth against Oleg to Chernigov and laid siege to his position on Starodub town

• Bonyak and his Polovcians appeared before Kiev and while ravaging the environs, they burned the prince's palace at Berestovo.

• Kurya and another band of Polovcians ravaged simultaneously the environs of Pereyaslavl', and burned Ust'e

• Tugorkan, the father-in-law of Svyatopolk, came to Pereyaslavl' and laid siege to the city.

• Bonyak, came suddenly to Kiev for the second time. The Polovcians almost entered the city, burned the suburbs about the town, and attacked the monastery.

• Izyaslav, the son of Vladimir and the grandson of Vsevolod, was slain

• After the capture of the Murom, Oleg arrested the men of Rostov, Beloozero, and Suzdal', fettered thein, and then marched on Suzdal When he arrived there, the inhabitants surrendered to him.

• Oleg went on to Rostov, and the inhabitants surrendered to him.

• Oleg won the whole district of Murom and Rostov, appointed regents in each city, and began to exact tribute.

• Oleg went on to Suzdal', and upon hearing that Mstislav was on his trail, he directed that the city should be burned

• Battle Oleg against Mstislav and Yaroslav against Vyacheslav

• The first Russian mention of the mountains to the east of the East European Plain is provided by the Primary Chronicle, when it describes the Novgorodian expedition to the upper reaches of the Pechora

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