The young sisters in the convents were exposed to the brutality of these monsters.

The unhappy laborers, who, to escape death or captivity, had fled into the deserts, perished of exposure and starvation.

Not an inhabitant was left who did not weep over the death of a father, a son, a brother or a friend." Thus Andre ascended the throne, and then returned the soldiers of the khan laden with the booty which they had so cruelly and iniquitously obtained.

The barbarians, always greedy of rapine and blood, were ever delighted to find occasion to ravage the principalities of Russia.

The Tartars, having withdrawn, Dmitri secured the cooeperation of some powerful princes, drove his brother from Novgorod, and again grasped the scepter which his brother had wrested from him.