Not one tenth of their number escaped that field of massacre.

Seven princes, and seventy of the most illustrious nobles were among the slain.

The Tartars followed up their victory with their accustomed inhumanity, and, as if it were their intention to depopulate the country, swept it in all directions, putting the inhabitants indiscriminately to the sword.

They acted upon the maxim which they ever proclaimed, "The conquered can never be the friends of the conquerors; and the death of the one is essential to the safety of the other." The whole of southern Russia trembled with terror; and men, women and children, in utter helplessness, with groans and cries fled to the churches, imploring the protection of God.

That divine power which alone could aid them, interposed in their behalf.