The Tartars, intoxicated with blood, dispersed over the whole principality; and all its populous cities, Vladimir, Zvenigorod, Yourief, Mojaisk and Dmitrof, experienced the same fate with that of Moscow.

The khan then retired, crossing the Oka at Kolomna.
Dmitri arrived with his army at Moscow, only to behold the ruins.

The enemy had already disappeared.

In profoundest affliction, he gave orders for the interment of the charred and blackened bodies of the dead.

Eighty thousand, by count, were interred, which number did not include the many who had been consumed entirely by the conflagration.
The walls of the city and the towers of the Kremlin still remained.
With great energy, the prince devoted himself to the rebuilding and the repeopling of the capital; many years, however, passed away ere it regained even the shadow of its former splendor.
Thus again Russia, brought under the sway of the Tartars, was compelled to pay tribute, and Dmitri was forced to send his own son to the horde, where he was long detained as a hostage.