The king, in this extremity, developed true greatness of soul.

He exhibited neither dejection nor anger, but bowed to the calamity as to a chastisement he needed from God.

The victory of the insurgents, if they may be so called, who occupied the provinces in the valley of the Dnieper, was not promotive either of prosperity or peace.

Mindful of the former grandeur of Kief, as the ancient capital of the Russian empire, ambitious princes were immediately contending for the possession of that throne.

After several months of confusion and blood, Andre succeeded, by skillful diplomacy, in again inducing them, for the sake of general tranquillity, to come under the general government of the empire.