But again the battle was disastrous to Russia.

Mogol numbers triumphed over Russian valor, and the king and nearly all his army were slain.
Some days after the battle the bishop of Rostof traversed the field, covered with the bodies of the dead.

There he discovered the corpse of the monarch, which he recognized by the clothes.

The head had been severed from the body.

The bishop removed the gory trunk of the prince and gave it respectful burial in the church of Notre Dame at Rostof.
The head was subsequently found and deposited in the coffin with the body.
The conquerors, continuing their march westerly one hundred and fifty miles, burning and destroying as they went, reached the populous city of Torjek.