They have deposed Yaroslaf, merely because he was faithful in collecting tribute for you." By such a crisis, republicanism was necessarily introduced in Novgorod.

The people, destitute of a prince, and threatened by an approaching army, made vigorous efforts for resistance.

The two armies soon met face to face, and they were on the eve of a terrible battle, when the worthy metropolitan bishop, Cyrille, interposed and succeeded in effecting a treaty which arrested the flow of torrents of blood.
The Novgorodians again accepted Yaroslaf, he making the most solemn promises of amendment.

The embassadors of the Tartar khan conducted Yaroslaf again to the throne.
The Tartars now embraced, almost simultaneously and universally, the Mohammedan religion, and were inspired with the most fanatic zeal for its extension.

Yaroslaf retained his throne only by employing all possible means to conciliate the Tartars.