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In the spring, after Easter, the men of Novgorod said to their Lord Father Vladyka Ivan: "We cannot. Lord Father, endure this violence of our Veliki Knyaz Vasili Dmitrievich; that he has taken the surrounding villages and districts away from Novgorod, and from St. Sophia, which belonged to our fathers and grandfathers; but intend to recover the outlying parts and districts of St. Sophia which belonged to our fathers and grandfathers." ...and all the soldiers went off to the Dvina beyond the Volok, to Orlets town, and there met them coming from the Vel district the Vladyka's superintendent Isai, saying to them thus: " Sirs, Voyevodas of Novgorod, the Veliki Knyaz's Boyar Andrei, with Ivan Mikitin and with the Dvina men, having invaded the Vel district of St. Sophia on Easter Day, they ravaged the St. Sophia district and levied a poll tax; ...And they went against the Belo-Ozero districts of the Veliki Knyaz and took the Belo-Ozero districts by assault, after ravaging and firing them; and burnt the old town of Belozersk, and the Knyazes of Belozersk and the Voyevodas of the Veliki Knyaz came out from the new town, and they took from them a ransom of sixty roubles, and they took countless plunder and took a countless quantity of cattle; and ravaged the Kubensk districts and ravaged around Vologda, and ravaged and burnt the town of Ustyug, and they remained at Ustyug four weeks.

• And then the Voyevodas sent Dmitri Ivanovich, Ivan Bogdanovich, and with them sons of Boyars, and they ravaged the districts of the Veliki Knyaz to within one day of Galich,- and they ravaged and burnt the districts, and took a countless number of captives and they took ransom for the captives because their boats would not hold them, and other plunder they threw away. And thence they went along the Dvina to the town of Orlets, ravaging the districts of the Veliki Knyaz, and coming to Orlets town they stood before it four weeks, and set up battering rams, and invested the town, and began to batter with them. And the Dvina men came from out of the town and began to beat with their foreheads with lamentation to the Voyevodas and to all the Novgorod soldiers.

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