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There was a sign from the image of the Holy Mother of God to which prayers were offered in the Church of St. Georgi at the end of Lubyanka Street.

• The same year on the 15th day of July there was a battle between King Yagailo Olgerdovich, named Volodislav, with the Veliki Knyaz Vitovt Kestutievich of Lithuania and the Prussian Germans in their country of Prussia between the towns of Dubravna and Ostrod, and they killed the Master Order of Teutonic Knights and the Marshal and the Kuntury (Commanders), and defeated the entire army of the Germans; and took the towns of the Germans, only three towns did not surrender to the King and Vitovt. The same autumn the Poles and the Lithuanians had three battles with the Germans, and thrice they defeated the Germans; and in all these battles many Christians, both Lithuanians and Poles," were slain by the Germans. And they stood before the fortified town of Marienburg eight weeks, and took two outlying forts of Marienburg, but the upper third fort they did not take; and they campaigned in the land of the Germans eleven and a half weeks.

• Russian troops and their allies defeated the German knights in the Battle of Grunwald.

• The same year Kniyaz Danilei Borisovich, whose old patrimony was Nizhni Novgorod, seized the capital city of Volodimir, taking its people captive, and burning it ; and the Tartars stripped the goldtopped Church of the Holy Mother of God.

• The same year the men of Novgorod began to trade among themselves in lopatses (Properly lobtsi or lobki, skins of the little foreheads of squirrels), and Lithuanian groshes and German artugs (A Swedish copper coin), doing away with kunas (Squirrel skins), in the Posadnik-ship of Grigori Bogdanovich and the Tysyatski Vasih Esifovich.

• On December 21 there was a sign from the image of the holy Martyrs Guri, Samon and Aviv, in the Church of St. Sophia.

• Yagailo and Vitovt again went to Marienburg, and after defeating the forces of the Germans, took peace.

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