Multitudes of the Russians, even, encircled by the flames in the narrow streets, miserably perished.

In a few hours the city and nearly all of its male inhabitants were destroyed.

Extensive regions of the country were then ravaged, and Bulgaria, as a conquered province, was considered as annexed to the Russian empire.

Georges enriched with plunder and having extorted oaths of allegiance from most of the Bulgarian princes, reascended the Volga to Vladimir.

As he was on his return he laid the foundations of a new city, Nijni Novgorod, at the confluence of two important streams about two hundred miles west of Moscow.