This is the first intimation history gives of this now renowned capital of the most extensive monarchy upon the globe.

A prince named Georges reigned here, over the extensive province then called Souzdal, who received the fugitive with heartfelt sympathy.

Aided by Georges and several of the surrounding princes, another army was raised, and Sviatoslaf commenced a triumphal march, sweeping all opposition before him, until he arrived a conqueror before the walls of Novgorod.
The people of Kief, enraged by this success of the foe of their popular king, rose in a general tumult, burst into a convent where Igor was found at his devotions, tied a rope about his neck, and dragged him, a mutilated corpse, through the streets.
The king, Ysiaslaf, called for a _levy en masse_, of the inhabitants of Kief, summoned distant feudal barons with their armies to his banner, and marched impetuously to meet the conquering foe.

Fierce battles ensued, in which Sviatoslaf was repeatedly vanquished, and retreated to Souzdal again to appeal to Georges for aid.

Ysiaslaf summoned the Novgorodians before him, and in the following energetic terms addressed them: "My brethren," said he, "Georges, the prince of Souzdal, has insulted Novgorod.