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The sack of Kiev
6 Dec 1240 — The mother of Rus cities, four hundred years old, refuses surrender and is stormed; the last defenders die under the collapsing roof of the Church of the Tithes. Six years later a papal envoy counts two hundred houses standing. Remember Kiev.
This is one scene of Chapter 6 — The Storm on the West in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294.
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