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The men of Pleskov sent envoys with greeting to Novgorod: "A German force fully armed is advancing against Pskov; we bow to you, our masters, defend us." And making no delay, the men of Novgorod went quickly on Good Friday, others following on Easter Eve, having sealed up all their communal property; and when they reached Meletovo the men of Pskov sent greeting: " We bow to you; there is no army coming against us; there is an army of Germans, but they are building a fort on the border on their own land." And they wanted to go to Pskov, and then they listened to their request, and came back to Novgorod all well.

• The same year the men of Pskov gave themselves over to Lithuania, renouncing Novgorod, and the Veliki Knyaz. They fetched into their midst Knyaz Olgerd from Lithuania, son of Gedimin, with the Lithuanians ; they had first turned out Olexander Vsevolodits. And Olgerd had his son baptised in the name of Andrei, and he set him in Pskov, and himself departed to Lithuania.

• The same year the men of Pskov beat the Germans, pursuing them up to their town Novogrodek on the border, killing about 300 of them. And the Germans came in great strength to Izborsk with battering rams, and stood before the town eleven days and nearly took it; but they killed many Germans, and there also they killed Voinev, son of the Lithuanian Knyaz, and several Lithuanians and men of Izborsk fell ; and the Germans withdrew.

• Fire in Novgorod

• The same year Knyaz Simeon went to the Horde to the pagan Zyanibek who had taken his seat on the Tsar's throne after killing his two brothers, and the Knyaz came back into Russia.

• The same year Luka Valfromeyev not listening to Novgorod and the blessing of the Metropolitan and the Vladyka collected a party of peasant adventurers and went to the Dvina beyond the Volok, and put up the fort of Orlitsk; and gathering a number of the Yem people, he took by assault all the country beyond the Volok and the villages along the Dvina.

• And at the same time his son Ontsifor went off to the Volga, and Luka going out to fight with a party of 200, was killed by the people beyond the Volok ; and the news came

• to Novgorod: " Luka has been killed! " and the common people rose against Ondreshko and Posadnik Fedor Danilov, saying that they had sent men to kill Luka, and they plundered their houses

• and villages, and Fedor and Ondreshko fled to the town of Koporya where they stayed all the winter until the Great Fast... Ontsifor and Matvei sent the Vladyka to the Veche, but not waiting the

• Vladyka's return from that Veche, they attacked the Yaroslav Court and there seized Matvei Koska and his son Ignat, and put them in the church. And Ontsifor fled with his confederates.

• Russians raid to Estonia. Livonians build the Frauenburg (Vastseliina) and Marienburg (Aluliina) strongholds.

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