having passed southwestern russia, khan batu ravaged poland, hungary, croatia and went to the adriaticd went back to the degree. became on the lower volga and soon around his stakes arose a whole city , a barn, a trampoline palace, batu, the time of campaigns was over , it was time to establish the mongol order on the conquered lands. the few surviving princes were going to the congress to decide. who will occupy the great throne , alexander, who was empty after the death of the vladimir prince , traveled to vladimir from novgorod the longest . and every day of this terrible journey seemed longer than life. on the site of a crowded, noisy torzhok, from the rear, there are ashes in the re-ghosting, there are no more acquaintances from childhood, the streets of the capital vladimir, robbed defiled is like a graveyard. temples with peeled domes hastily, tidied up again, so that there was a place to bury the countless dead, oh, who were not enough for even the coffins of ivanov at the congress , father alexander yaroslav was elected grand duke of vladimir. -eastern russia but before he had