Ysiaslaf entered the city with the stern strides of a conqueror and wreaked horrible vengeance upon the inhabitants, making but little discrimination between the innocent and the guilty.

Seventy were put to death.

A large number had their eyes plucked out; and for a long time the city resounded with the cries of the victims, suffering under all kinds of punishments from the hands of this implacable monarch.

Thus the citizens were speedily brought into abject submission.

The Polish king, with his army, remained a long time at Kief, luxuriating in every indulgence at the expense of the inhabitants.