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- punkar7
- May 7, 2015
- 2 min read
In the same year there was a tumult in Novgorod ; they set about driving Knyaz Yaroslav out of the town, and they summoned a Veche in Yaroslav's Court and killed Ivanko, and others escaped into the Church of St. Nikola; and on the morrow the Tysyatski Ratibor, Gavrilo Kiyaninov and other of his friends fled to the Knyaz to Gorodishche; and they took their houses for plunder and divided up their dwellings, and sent to the Knyaz in the Gorodishche having written out a document with all his faults
And Yaroslav began to collect forces against Novgorod, and he sent Ratibor to the Tartar Tsar asking for help against Novgorod. And Knyaz Vasili Yaroslavich having heard this sent envoys to Novgorod saying thus: "I bow to St. Sophia and to the men of Novgorod ; I have heard that Yaroslav is going against Novgorod with all his force, and Dmitri with the men of Pereyaslavl, and Gleb with the men of Smolensk; I am sorry for my patrimony," and he himself went to the Tartars, taking with him Petrila Rychag and Mikhail Pineshchinich, and he turned back the Tartar forces, saying thus to the Tsar: " The men of Novgorod are right, and Yaroslav is to blame." For the Tsar had already sent off an army against Novgorod according to Ratibor's false word, for Ratibor said to the Tsar: "The men of Novgorod do not listen to thee; we demanded tribute for thee, but they drove us out; and others they killed, and plundered our houses, and dishonoured Yaroslav." And the men of Novgorod raised a stockade about the town on both sides and brought the merchandise into the city... And into Novgorod there were collected the whole Novgorod district, the men of Pleskov, of Ladoga, the Korel, Izhera, and the Vod people, and great and small, all went to Golino, and stood a week at the ford, and Yaroslav's force stood on the opposite side. (Votes and Izhorians appeared in records of the composition of the Novgorod forces.)
Novgorod asserts its independence, electing its own city magistrate to take over the role of the local Russian prince
The Izhorians were subjected to taxation by the Novgorod feudal republic, and they were also forced into military allegiance
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