1238
That same year foreigners called Tartars came in countless" numbers, like locusts, into the land of Ryazan, and on first coming they halted at the river Nuklila, and took it, and halted in camp there. And thence they sent their emissaries to the Knyazes of Ryazan, a sorceress and two men with her, demanding from them one-tenth of everything: of men and Knyazes and horses—of everything one-tenth.
And then the pagan foreigners surrounded Ryazan and fenced it in with a stockade. And Knyaz Yuri of Ryazan, shut himself in the town with his people, but Knyaz Romann Ingorovich began to fight against them with his own men. Then Knyaz Yuri of Volodimir sent Yeremei as Voyevoda with a patrol and joined Roman; and the Tartars surrounded them at Kolomno, and they fought hard and drove them to the ramparts. And there they killed Roman and Yeremei and many fell here with the Knyaz and with Yeremei. And the men of Moscow ran away having seen nothing. And the Tartars took the town on December 21, and they had advanced against it on the 16th of the same month. They likewise killed the Knyaz and Knyagmya, and men, women, and children, monks, nuns and priests, some by fire, some by the sword, and violated nuns, priests' wives, good women and girls in the presence of their mothers and sisters.
The pagan and godless Tartars, then, having taken Ryazan, went to,..Vlodimir, a host of shedders of Christian blood. And Knyaz Yuri went out from Volodimir and fled to Yaroslavl, while his son Vsevolod" with his mother and the Vladyka, and the whole of the province shut themselves in Volodimir. And the lawless Ismaelites approached the town and surrounded the town in force, and fenced it all round with a fence... God let the pagans on us for our sins.
Principality of Yaroslavl fighting the Mongols on the Siti river
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