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Mstislav went against his son-inlaw, Yaroslav with the men of Novgorod, and on the Thursday the transgressors of oath to the Cross fled to Yaroslav; for they had kissed the honourable Cross to Mstislav with all the men of Novgorod, to be all at one
And Mstislav went by the Seregeri lake, and entered his own district, and said to the men of Novgorod: " Go out foraging, but take no heads." They went, and took their fill of food both they and their horses, and they were at the head of the Volga.
Svyatoslav invested Rzhevka, one of Mstislav's towns, with a force of 10,000. But Mstislav with Volodimir of Pleskov went rapidly with 500, for only such was the number of all their men ; and he pursued them and they fled. And Yarun had shut himself up in the town with 100 men and beat them off.
Mstislav went and took Zubchev, and they were on the Vozuga ; and thither came Volodimir Rurikovits with men of Smolensk. They were coming along the Volga, making war, and said to him: " Knyaz, go to Torzhok." But Mstislav and Volodimir said: " Let us go to Pereyaslavl; we have a third friend."
Yaroslav's guards attacked Yarun behind Tver, and God helped Yarun and they killed many, others they captured, and others escaped to Tver.
Yaroslav and they went along the Volga making war, and they burned [along the river] Shesha and also [the towns of] Dubna and Kosnyatin and all the country along the Volga.
And Eremei [coming] from Knyaz Kostj'antin met them with love and with greeting; and they went making war to Pereyaslavl and were at Gorodishche on the river Sarra, at the Church of Saint Marina on April 9 on Great Saturday.
And Yaroslav went to Torzhok having taken with him the elder men of Novgorod, and young men by selection, and all the men of Novi-torg. And he came to Pereyaslavl and assembled all his district and Gyurgi his, Volodimir and Svyatoslav likewise. And he went out from Pereyaslavl with his forces and those of Novgorod and of Novi-torg. How terrible, wonderful and strange, brothers
Sons went against father, brother against brother, slave against master, master against slave. And Yaroslav and Gyurgi, with their brothers took stand on the Khza river. And Mstislav and Kostyantin, the two Volodimirs, with the men of Novgorod, took stand on the Lipitsa river, and they beheld the forces standing
Forces of Novgorod came together with the forces of Yaroslav. O great was the victory, countless the number, my brethren ; numberless the number of killed so that the mind of man cannot imagine it. And Yaroslav having fled into Pereyaslavl, ordered the captives to be cast into a pit, all those who were of Novgorod; others into prison, and there they expired in numbers.
And Mstislav and Kostyantin and the two Volodimirs with their forces went in pursuit of Gyurgi to Volodimir, and having come they halted before the town, and that night the town and the Knyaz's court took fire. And the men of Novgorod wanted to go right up to the town, but Knyaz Mstislav did not let them.
And Gyurgi went from Volodimir to the little town Radilov; and the men of Novgorod set Kostyantin on his father's throne in Volodimir.
And Mstislav went with the men of Novgorod to Pereyaslavl, and not going up to the town, levied gifts. He sent and took away his daughter, the wife of Yaroslav, and all the surviving men of Novgorod, and all that were in the army with Yaroslav, and all returned well to Novgorod.
Mstislav came to Novgorod and the Vladyka and all the men of Novgorod were glad. They then took the Posadnik-ship from Gyurgi Ivankovits and gave it to Tverdislav Mikhalkovits.
Estonia. Pskov Knjaz Vladimir military expedition to Estonia. Vladimir conquered Otepää. Army looted around Otepää county
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