1331

The same year on November 30, the day of the Apostle St. Andrew, there was a darkening of the sun lasting from one to three.

• ...A sign then appeared in the heavens: a bright star over the church.

• At that same time envoys came to the Metropohtan from Knyaz Alexander, from Pleskov, and from Gedimin, and from all the Lithuanian Knyazes, bringing with them Arseni desiring to appoint him to the Vladyka-ship in Pleskov, thinking Novgorod of no account they had puffed themselves with their pride. But God and St. Sophia always lay low presumptuous thoughts, for the men of Pleskov violated their kissing of the Cross to Novgorod, they had set up Knyaz Alexander on their throne by Lithuanian hands; so Arseni with the men of Pleskov went disgraced from the Metropolitan from Volynia to Kiev. Vladyka Vasili left the Metropolitan on the Day of Simon Stylites^; as he approached Chernigov, there Knyaz Fedor of Kiev at the prompting of the devil set upon him murderously with a Baskak and fifty men. And the men of Novgorod were aware in time and halted to defend themselves; only by a little was it not a disaster for them, and the Knyaz was disgraced and rode away, though he did not escape punishment from God: his horses all died.

• And thence the Vladyka went to Bryansk and reached Torzhok on the day of the holy Martyr Akepsim. And the people of Novitorg were glad of their Vladyka; but they were sad in Novgorod, because there was no news, for the report had spread, that the Lithuanians had taken the Vladyka and had killed his children.

• The same year the Veliki Knyaz Ivan went to the Horde with Knyaz Kostyantin.

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