Tsar of rus - chapter 3

Novgorod, autumn August 1584 a few weeks after Crown Prince Ivan and his supporters fled Moscow, the Crown Prince immediately ordered all the nobles to be on his side, from the northern regions. Recruiting announcements were made. The cavalrymen had gone to villages and towns across the north to make a single announcement.

Novgorod has a long history, founded in 859 by rurik, the ancestor of the tsars, for many centuries Novgorod has been the most important city in the north having been a bustling city, trading ports and harbours. Vast trade and ships from all over the world came to trade in novgorod, creating its wealth. Until the novgorod massacre in 1570 tens of thousands of people died and crown prince ivan, who witnessed it all, had a different view of his father tsar ivan IV.

Before the massacre happened, the city surrendered by tying up those behind the rebellion brought before the tsar, and demanded leniency and petitioned tsar Ivan IV to make the crown prince a city. ruler of novgorod, many nobles begged the tsar to accept this offer but the tsar said no, he said

"My son does not need to rule a city and rebels, what he needs to rule is this country after I return to god. ''

"Instead, just treat this city as a second kazan, as I did in my campaign to conquer the kazan, and also to deter those who would later, kill me completely,'.

When the order was given, the prince pleaded with his father to say that the people of novgorod were innocent, the people were just deceived by the rebels, they were not guilty but the tsar got up and drew his sword Shashka from a forbidden guard and pointed it at the crown prince's neck.

"In war instead of even destroying the rebels, benevolence is something without a king's head, you won't be able to rule an entire country because of that benevolence."

"Simeon, give my orders to the entire army that my heir will personally lead the attack."

"Father," who could not.

"You must, prove yourself to be my worthy heir, or I will blind you and send you to a remote monastery and place your sick brother on the throne."

"Go now for me". Boy

And just like that, the massacre took place, tens of hundreds of thousands of people died and novgorod was engulfed in a sea of ​​blood, even though the crown prince ordered not to kill the elderly, children and pregnant women. But the soldiers only obeyed the tsar's orders, leaving no survivors. When they felt that the punishment was enough, the tsar signaled to stop, and the city was set on fire.

The tsar appointed a courtier, oleg zarsinkov, to rule the city, and led his troops back to moskva, seemingly over until a year later in 1571, oleg was presumed dead when he fell from the stairs. while drunk, and immediately without his father's permission, crown prince ivan mysteriously went to novgorod and made himself ruler of the city. The incident caused an uproar in the Moscow court, though very angry the tsar ignored it because he was busy preparing for the campaign to conquer livonia (Terra Mariana).

"we should attack immediately on moscow to depose the tsar," bolyar vasli said, and put the crown prince on the throne.

"That would make us rebels, bolyar andrey markhodr said,

This is the only way, said boris gudunov,"

How many horsemen we can muster, said Prince Ivan,

45,000 troops, your highness basil zerskorki spoke up,

How long do we need, for the army to assemble,

I think about a month, Your Highness'

We won't have enough time, we need another way.

Feodor, brother come here

I have something to ask you, can you do it?

Feodor nodded.

I need you to return to Moscow in secret to find a way to get my wife to her parents' house in the Smolensk region she will be safe there.

I get it bro, I'll go get ready now,

Gentlemen, we will wait for the time being, waiting for a move from Moscow,

My father is very weak, it won't be long.