1265
Jugra, the land of the Ugric peoples, was a tributary to Novgorod
The same year there was a great tumult amongst the Lithuanians by God's infliction on them, for our Lord God could not bear to look upon the unrighteous and pagan seeing them shedding Christian blood like water and others scattered by them over strange lands; then the Lord will repay them according to their works. Knyaz Mindovg of Lithuania had a son named Voishelg ; him the Lord chose as champion of the true faith; for having gone to Mount Sinai, away from his father and his kindred, and from his pagan faith, he acknowledged the true Christian religion, and was baptized in the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost, and studied the sacred books, and was shorn into the monastic order on the Holy Mount ; and having remained there three years, he went to his own country to his father. And his father being a pagan tried to persuade him to renounce the Christian faith and the monastic order, and to take up his rule. But after the murder of his father, though undesirous to do so, but God inflicting him on them, the pagan Lithuanians, for the Christian blood, laid it in his heart, and he taking off from him his gown, vowed himself to God for three years, when he should resume his gown, and did not leave the monastic order. He gathered about him his father's soldiers and friends, and having prayed to the honourable Cross, he went against the pagan Lithuanians and defeated them, and stayed in their country all the year. Then the Lord repaid the accursed ones according to their works; for he took the whole of their country captive by force of arms, and there was joy everywhere throughout the Christian land. Then about 300 Lithuanians escaped into Pleskov with their wives and children, and Knyaz Svyatoslav with the priests and people of Pleskov baptized them; and the men of Novgorod wanted to slay them, but Knyaz Yaroslav would not give them up, and they were not slain.
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