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The Tartars, dissatisfied with the Lithuanians, prepared an expedition against them, and marching with a great army, compelled many of the Russian princes to follow their banners.Still there were to be seen here egypt king tomb valley and there indications of discontent.Leaving smoking brands and half burnt corpses where the imperial city once stood, the insatiable Bati pressed on hundreds of miles further west, assailing, storming, destroying the provinces of Gallicia as far as southern Vladimir within a few leagues of the frontiers of Poland.The conquerors did not wish to encumber egypt king tomb valley themselves with captives.Bati, now satiated with carnage, retired, with his army, to the banks of the Don.A more egypt king tomb valley determined and heroic defense was never made.Russian princes, with more or less power ruled over the serfs who tilled their lands, but there was no recognized head of the once powerful kingdom, and no Russian prince ventured to disobey the commands even of the humblest captain of the Tartar hordes.The Novgorodians then egypt king tomb valley offered the soiled and battered crown to Dmitry, a nephew of the deposed prince.The unhappy laborers, who, to escape death or captivity, had fled into the deserts, perished of exposure and starvation.The inhabitants, frantic with terror, fled from egypt king tomb valley their line of march as lambs fly from wolves.Yaroslaf, terrified and humiliated, sent his son to the public assembly with the assurance that he was ready to conform to all their wishes, if they would return to their allegiance.The two egypt king tomb valley brothers continued bitterly hostile to each other, and years passed of petty intrigues and with occasional scenes of violence and blood as Dmitri struggled to hold the crown which Andr as perseveringly strove to seize.But Dmitry, fearing the vengeance of the Tartars, replied, I am not willing to ascend a throne from which you have expelled my uncle.It has been egypt king tomb valley estimated that the ambition of this one man cost the lives of between five and six millions of the human family.In the spacious valleys of the Don and its tributaries lived the powerful nation of the Polovtsi, who had often bid defiance to the whole strength of Russia.