The Russians descended the river in barges, assailed them with the valor which their fathers had displayed, and drove the pagans, in wild rout, to the shores of the Sea of Azof.
The Tartars, astounded at such unprecedented audacity, forgetting, for the time, their personal animosities, collected a large army, and commenced a march upon Moscow.

The grand prince dispatched his couriers in every direction to assemble the princes of the empire with all the soldiers they could bring into the field.

Again the Tartars were repulsed.

For many years the Tartars had been in possession of Bulgaria, an extensive region east of the Volga.

In the year 1376, the grand prince, Dmitri, fitted out an expedition for the reconquest of that country.