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| | The Baldwin Project: The Story of Russia by Robert van Bergen |
 | | Dmitri of Souzdal went to Saraï—and secured the iarlikh, which made him Grand Duke of Vladimir, but Alexis, the Metropolitan, was loyal to Ivan's children, and appealed to the khan in the name of his young ward. |
 | | Two years later, in 1378, a battle was fought between Dmitri and one of Mamaï's generals in Riazan, when the Tartars were defeated, which made the grand duke exclaim: "Their time is come, and God is with us!" The khan sent an army to ravage Riazan, and made preparations to reestablish his authority at Moscow. |
 | | Dmitri, at the head of an army estimated at 150,000 men, marched through Riazan to the Don where the Tartars were drawn up, awaiting the reënforcements of their ally Jagellon, who was still fifteen leagues distant. |
| www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=bergen&book=russia&story=decline (2004 words) |
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