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All lips praised him, all hearts loved him.The embassador was seized at Kief, his hair and beard shaven, and was then sent back to Moscow with the defiant message, Until now we have wished to respect you as a father but since you catherine kellner photo do not blush to treat us as vassals and as peasants since you have forgotten that you speak to princes, we spurn your menaces.The Novgorodian army had even penetrated the realms of Andr, and were exacting tribute from his provinces.In the camp of the besiegers there was catherine kellner photo neither harmony nor zeal.Not a few even were in sympathy with the insurgents, and were almost disposed to unite under their banners.The provinces were impoverished, and Kief was fast catherine kellner photo sinking to decay.Mercilessly they were massacred, many Russian prisoners were rescued, and booty to an immense amount was taken, for these river pirates were rich, having for years been plundering the commerce of Greece and Russia.Vsevelod prepared with vigor catherine kellner photo to repulse his assailants.Wintry winds swept the plains, and storms of snow whitened the fields, when, from the battlements of the fortress, the besieged saw the banners of another army approaching the arena.The earnest remonstrances, alone, of his spiritual advisers, dissuaded him from abdicating catherine kellner photo the throne, and adopting the austerities of a monastic life.This mother of the Russian cities had often been besieged and often capitulated, but never before had it been taken by storm, and never before, and never since, have the horrors of war been more sternly exhibited.Nearly all the provinces of known Russia were now more or less tributary to catherine kellner photo Andr.The Russian annalists cherish the memory of Andr affectionately.Had he established his throne in the more central city of Kief instead of the remote village of Moscow, he could more efficiently have governed the empire but, blinded by his love for his own northern realms, he was ambitious of elevating his own native village, unfavorable as was its location, into catherine kellner photo the capital of the empire.