Many of the warlike princes of the spacious provinces regarded his elevation with envy.

Sviatoslaf, prince of Tchernigof, was roused to intense hostility, and gathering around him the nobles of his province, resolved with a vigorous arm to seize for himself the throne.
Enlisting in his interests several other princes, he commenced his march against his sovereign.

Vsevelod prepared with vigor to repulse his assailants.

After long and weary marchings the two armies met in the defiles of the mountains.

A swift mountain-stream rushing along its rocky bed, between deep and precipitous banks, separated the combatants.