1401

The same year against the peace and against their kissing of the Cross, by order of the Veliki Knyaz, Anfal Mikitin and Gerasim Rostriga with a force of the Veliki Knyaz came against the Dvina beyond the Volok; and took all the Dvina country by assault by surprise, on St. Peter's Day,^ hanged some of the Christians and slew others, and took their cattle and their belongings. They seized Ondrei Ivanovich and the Posadniks of the Dvina, Esip Filipovich and Naum Ivanovich. And Stepan Ivanovich, his brother Mikhail, and Mikita Golovna collecting around them the Vod people, and overtaking Anfailo and Gerasim fought them at Kolmogory and recovered from them the Novgorod Boyars Andrei, Esif and Naum. At the same time the Veliki Knyaz Vasili Dmitrievich sent his Boyars Alexander Pol and Ivan Narin, with a body of 300 men, against Torzhok; they seized Simeon Vasilievich and Mikhail Felilatov, against their kissing of the Cross, and took their property out of St. Saviour's.

• The same autumn the people of Smolensk accepted Yuri Svyatoslavich as their Knyaz, and killed Knyaz Roman of Bryansk, lieutenant of Knyaz Vitovt. And Knyaz Vitovt came to Smolensk with all the forces of Lithuania, and remained by the town for four weeks, and they beat on the town with guns [sic] and he withdrew from the town and took peace with Knyaz Yuri on the old terms. And the people of Smolensk with their Knyaz Yuri put to death those of their Boyars who had been in secret communication with Knyaz Vitovt.

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