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Mongols. The Mongol khan Tokhtamysh reasserted his power by looting and burning Moscow.: The Tartar Tsar Tektomysh came against the Russian Land with a large force, and ravaged much of the Russian Land; he took Moscow town and burned it; also Pereyaslavl, Kolomno, Serpukhov, Dmitrov, Volodimir and Yurev Polski.

• And the Veliki Knyaz seeing the enormous number of godless Tartars did not take stand against them; but retired to Kostroma with his wife and children, Knyaz Volodimir to the Volok, and his mother and his wife to Torzhok; the Metropohtan to Tver, and Gerasim Vladyka of Kolomna removed to Novgorod. And who of us, my brethren, would not be terrified by this, seeing such confusion in the Russian Land ? for as the Lord said through the Prophet: " If ye hearken unto me I shall put your fear into your enemies and ye shall enjoy the fruit of the earth; but if ye hearken not unto me, ye shall flee when none pursueth you; I shall send fear and dread on to you, and one hundred of you shall run from five, and from one hundred ten thousand."

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