1327

There was a tumult in Novgorod, and they plundered the house of Ostafi Dvoryaninets and entirely burned it.

• Golden Horde. The ambassador of the Golden Horde was trapped and burned alive during an uprising in the Grand Duchy of Tver.: The same year on the day of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God Knyaz Alexander Mikhailovich killed a great many Tartars in Tver and in other towns, and he killed some merchants of Khopyl. For an important envoy named Shefkal had come from the Horde with a large number of Tartars, and Knyaz Olexander sent envoys to the men of Novgorod, wishing to flee into Novgorod ; but they did not receive him.

• The same winter a very great force of Tartars came, and they took Tver and Kashin and the Novi-torg district, and to put it simply, laid waste all the Russian Land, God and St. Sophia preserved Novgorod alone, and Knyaz Olexander fled to Pleskov, and his brother Kostyantin and Vasili to Ladoga. And the Tartars sent envoys to Novgorod, and the men of Novgorod gave them 2,000 in silver, and they sent their own envoys with them, with numerous presents to the Voyevodas.

• Tartars killed Kjiyaz Ivan of Ryazan.

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