1225
And the same year, Knyaz Mikhail went to Gyurgi taking with him some men of Novgorod to confiscate the goods which he (Gyurgi) had seized in Torzhok and throughout his district.
The same winter the Lithuanians came and wrought countless havoc around Torzhok; but they did not come to Torzhok by three versts; there were 7,000 of them, and they killed many merchants and they occupied the whole district of Toropets; and Knyaz Yaroslav and Volodimir with his son and with the men of Novi-torg, the Knyaz s Court, some men of Novgorod, and the men of Toropets with their Knyaz David, went after them, and they sent for the men of Novgorod, but they having come as far as Russa turned back. And Knyaz Yaroslav overtook them on [lake] Vosvyat and turned on them; and thus with the help of God and St. Sophia they recovered all the plunder and killed 2,000 of them themselves, and the rest of them fled asunder. And there they killed Knyaz David of Toropets and Vasili, Yaroslav's sword-bearer.
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