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- punkar7
- May 7, 2015
- 1 min read
Knyaz Yuri came to Novgorod, called by the men of Novgorod, and gave orders to repair the battering rams.
Finland. At the same time the Germans came to make war on the Keksholm and did not take it.
Disastrous attack on Yaroslavl launched by the Golden Horde
The same year the Veliki Knyaz Yuri went with the men of Novgorod to Viborg, a town of the Nemetsky gorod and they beat at it with six rams, for it was strong; and they killed many Germans in the town and hanged others, and others they led away to the Low Country. And having laid siege to it for a month they attacked it, and did not take it, but for our sins several good men fell.
The same year a powerful envoy came into Russia from the Horde, named Akhmyl, and he did much harm in the Low Country; he slew many Christians, and others he took away to the Horde.
And Knyaz Yuri having come from Viborg went to the Low Country, the men of Novgorod having much beseeched him to lead them there. And while he was at the [river] Urdoma, Knyaz Alexander Mikhailovich came from Tver, and there fell on him, so that Knyaz Yuri with a small party ran away and fled to Pskov; and they plundered all his baggage.
And the Lithuanian Knyaz Davidko was then in Pskov, and the men of Novgorod called him from there according to their kissing of the Cross, and put him in the deacon Afanasi's Court.
1322-1323 Estonia. Russians raid from Pskov. Lake Peipus to city Tallinn
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