1245
There was an invasion of pagan Tartars into the Russian Land; and these shut themselves in the towns. And envoys came from Tsar Baty to Mikhail, who then held Kiev; and he, seeing their words of deceit, ordered them to be killed and himself fled with his family to Hungary. Tsar Baty killed Knyaz Mikhail of Chernigov and his Voyevoda Fedor in the Horde on September 18.
The Lithuanians made ravages about Torzhok and Bezhitsy, and the men of Novi-torg with Knyaz Yaroslav Volodimirovich chased and fought them; and they took the horses from the men of Novitorg, and beat the men themselves and went away with their plunder. And Yavid and Erbet with the men of Tver and of Dmitrov, and Yaroslav with the men of Novi-torg, pursued them and beat them near Toropets, and the sons of their Knyaz took refuge in Toropets.
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