1372

The men of Novgorod went to Torzhok to build up the town; and they sent Mikhail's lieutenants away from Torzhok. And Knyaz Mikhail came with a force to Torzhok, and burned the whole town, and the Christians suffered great distress: some were burnt with fire in their houses with their property, others took refuge in St. Saviour's, and were there suffocated; very many were burnt, others escaping from the fire were drowned in the Tvertsa river. And good women and girls foreseeing their violation at the hands of the men of Tver, for they were stripping them to utter nakedness, as even the pagans did not do, from shame and grief drowned themselves in the river; monks and nuns were all stripped... And they filled five pits with dead bodies of the killed, drowned and burnt; and others were burnt so that nothing was left, and others drowned without being heard of, and floated down the river Tvertsa.

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