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Finno-Ugric War. Finnish, Karelians, Izorians against Russia. The same year the Yem people came into lake Ladoga in boats, to make war, and the news reached Novgorod on the Saviour's Day. And the men of Novgorod having taken seat in their boats, rowed to Ladoga with Knyaz Yaroslav. And Volodislav, Posadnik of Ladoga with the men of Ladoga, not waiting for the men of Novgorod, went after them in pursuit in boats where they were making war, and came up with them, and fought with them. And night came on, and they retired to a small island, and the Yem people [remained] on the shore with their plunder; for they had been making war at the landings and at Olonets. And that same night having sued for peace, the Posadnik and the men of Ladoga did not grant it; and they- having slaughtered all their captives, themselves fled into the forest on foot having cast the boats adrift. Many of them fell there, and they burned their boats. Thence the men of Novgorod, without waiting for the men of Ladoga, returned to Novgorod. And the Izhora people who had stayed behind, met them as they fled, and there killed a great many of them. And the rest fled asunder; but these the Korel people, whichever way they went, whether by the woods, or by the fields, or to their tents, discovered and killed. It is thought that 2,000 or more of them had come; God knows, and few of them escaped to their own country ; all the rest perished.
The same year, before this war, Knyaz Yaroslav went to Pleskov with Posadnik Ivanko and the Tysyatski Vyacheslav. The people of Pleskov hearing that the Knyaz was coming to them, shut themselves up in the town and would not let him come to them.
And then Knyaz Yaroslav brought up troops from Pereyaslavl, saying: " I want to go against Riga." And the people of Pleskov having heard that Yaroslav was bringing up troops, became afraid and took peace with the men of Riga independently of Novgorod saying: " You be by yourselves and the men of Novgorod by themselves, we will have nothing to do with either ; but if they come against us, then you help us." And they said : " Be it so." And they took of them forty men as hostages. And the men of Novgorod having learnt, said: " The Knyaz calls upon us to go against Riga, but he wanted to go against Pleskov." Then the Knyaz sent Misha to Pleskov, saying: " Come on the march with me; I have not planned any evil against you. But give over to me those who have calumniated me to you." And the men of Pleskov said, sending a Greek: " We greet thee, Knyaz, and our brothers the men of Novgorod. We will not go on the march and will not give up our brethren; and with the people of Riga we have taken peace. You marched to Kolyvan (Estonia, Tallinn), took silver, and then you went back to Novgorod and you did not do justice, and did not take the town. Then, too, at Kes, and thus at Medvezhya-Golova; and for that they killed our brethren at the lake, and others were captured, and you having embroiled [us] there, went off. If you have planned against us, then we shall resist you with the Holy Mother of God and with our greeting. Then better cut us to pieces and take to yourselves our wives and children, no better than the pagans. This is our greeting to you." And the men of Novgorod said to the Knyaz; "Without our brethren the men of Pleskov we will not go against Riga, and we bow down to thee, Knyaz." And the Knyaz urged them much, but they would not go on the march, and then Knyaz Yaroslav sent home his troops. The men of Pleskov had brought up the Germans, Estonians: Chud people, Letts, and Livonians, and then let them go again, and those who had bounty from Yaroslav they drove out of Pleskov : " Go after your own Knyaz, you are no brothers to us."
The tumult in the Novgorod town was great. The same winter, Fedor Danilovits fled with the Tiun Yakim by night on Tuesday in Quinquagesima week, taking with them the two young Knyazes Fedor and Alexander. Then the men of Novgorod said: " They must have planned some harm to St. Sophia and have run away; we did not drive them out; but have executed our own brothers, and we have done the Knyaz no wrong... And they came to Smolensk and the Knyaz of Smolensk at the instance of Yaroslav would not let them go, and occupied all the roads.
Estonia. Swordbrothers Order and Pskov made agreement against Novgorod and Lithuania
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