Vsevolod Chermnago's son, Prince Michael, was the great-grandson of Grand Duke Vsevolod Olgovich, the brother of the Holy Martyr Igor. Olgovichi constantly fought with the descendants of Monomakh for the Grand Duchy of Kiev. In the time of St. Michael, the house of Monomakh was already connected by marriage with the Olgovich family (the Grand Duke of Suzdal, St. George, married the sister of Michael), but, despite this, internecine strife broke out among many Russian princes. Angry at each other, they shamelessly ruined the fatherland, for which Russia suffered a terrible punishment - the Mongol yoke. In 1206, Mikhail received the reign of Pereyaslavl from his father, but when Vsevolod was forced to flee Kiev, his son also retired to Chernigov. At this time, Genghis Khan's generals reached the Dnieper itself. The people, waiting for death, prayed in the temples - and this time God heard their prayer. The Tatars, finding no powerful resistance, suddenly turned to the East and hurried to join Genghis Khan in Great Bukharia, who decided to crush the then powerful Tangut king. Russia has rested: a terrible cloud suddenly appeared over its borders, and disappeared. "Whom did God send in his wrath to the Russian land? - said the people. "Where did these dreadful strangers come from?" Where did they go?.." The villages that the Tartars had laid waste on the eastern banks of the Dnieper were still smoking in ruins: fathers and mothers mourned the slain, but many were completely reassured, for the past evil seemed to them the last. The princes of southern Russia, who had experienced the onslaught of hordes of Asians, demanded help from Grand Duke George, but, not foreseeing the future, the people of Vladimir and Suzdal consoled themselves with the thought that God had saved them from the calamity that other Russians had suffered. George, who had once been humiliated by Mstislav of Galicia, could even see him in misery with secret pleasure: the long-term glory and victory ... Читать далее