The citizens set the palace on fire, and every Tartar perished, either consumed by the flames or cut down by the Russians.
When Usbeck heard of this event, he was, at first, stupefied by the audacity of the deed.

He imagined that all Russia was in the conspiracy, and that there was to be a general rising to throw off the Tartar yoke.

Still Usbeck, with his characteristic sagacity, decided to employ the Russians to subdue the Russians.

He at once deposed and outlawed Alexander, and declared Jean Danielovitch, of Moscow, to be grand prince, who promised the most obsequious obedience to his wishes.

At the same time he sent an army of fifty-thousand Tartars to cooeperate with the Russian army, which Jean Danielovitch was commanded to put in motion for the invasion of the principality of Tver.