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- punkar7
- May 7, 2015
- 1 min read
Novgorod. At the instigation of the devil the common people rose against the Archimandrite Esif, and they held a Veche, shut Esif in the Church of St. Nikola, and the rioters sat round the church night and day keeping watch on him.
The same winter the Veliki Knyaz Ivan quarrelled with the men of Novgorod, and he sent a force to the Dvina beyond the Volok, not remembering the kissing of the Cross, and there by the power of the Cross they were disgraced and beaten. Whoso diggeth a pit for another shall fall into it himself.
The same year Vladyka Vasili went on his visitation to Pskov, but the men of Pskov would not grant him jurisdiction, so the Vladyka left having cursed them.
The same year the whole of Moscow was burnt down; and then there came heavy rain and flooded everything; both in the cellars and in the squares wherever anything had been carried out.
The same year Toropets was burnt down and flooded.
The same year Knyaz Olexander went from Pskov to the Horde, having been in Pskov ten years.
Karelia. : The same winter the Korel people having fetched the Germans (Swedes), killed many Russians of Novgorod and of Ladoga, who were trading amongst them, and all the Christians who lived amongst them, and they themselves fled into the town of the Germans (Viborg) and then slew many Christians from the town of the Germans.
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