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- punkar7
- May 7, 2015
- 1 min read
Knyaz Andrei Alexandrovich with Smen Tolignevits petitioned to the Tsar against his brother Dmitri, and raised the Tartar forces and took Pereyaslavl by assault.
Finland. Kaprio. Kjtyaz Dmitri rode out with his men and court and passed by Novgorod making for Koporya. And the men of Novgorod went out in full force against him to the Ilmen lake. And the Knyaz retired from Koporya and the men of Novgorod showed him the way and they did not seize him, but his two daughters and his Boyars with their wives and children they brought to Novgorod as hostages: " If thy men retire from Koporya, then we will let them go free "; and they went each his own way on January 1. On the same day Domont drove the Ladoga men out of Koporya and they seized all the goods of Knyaz Dmitri, and seizing also Ladoga goods they took them into Koporya on Vasili day. And the men of Novgorod sent for Knyaz Andrei and themselves went to Koporya. Dmitri's men went out from the town because the men of Novgorod had showed them the road, and they plundered the town.
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