The favorites and advisers of Yaroslaf were put to death, and the prince himself was exiled.

There is something quite refreshing in the energetic spirit with which the populace transmitted their sentence of repudiation to the discomfited prince, blockaded in his palace.

The citizens met in a vast gathering in the church of St.
Nicholas, and sent to him the following act of accusation: "Why have you seized the mansion of one of our nobles?
Why have you robbed others of their money?
Why have you driven from Novgorod strangers who were living peaceably in the midst of us?
Why do your game-keepers exclude us from the chase, and drive us from our own fields?
It is time to put an end to such violence.

Leave us.

Go where you please, but leave us, for we shall choose another prince." Yaroslaf, terrified and humiliated, sent his son to the public assembly with the assurance that he was ready to conform to all their wishes, if they would return to their allegiance.
"It is too late," was the reply.