The men were put to death, the cities and villages burned; the women and children were brought away as captives and incorporated with the Russian people.
Mstislaf reigned but about four years, when he suddenly died in the sixtieth year of his age.

His whole reign was an incessant warfare with insurgent chiefs and barbarian invaders.

There is an awful record, at this time, of the scourge of famine added to the miseries of war.

All the northern provinces suffered terribly from this frown of God.

Immense quantities of snow covered the ground even to the month of May.