ocr: And who, brothers,fathers, and children, seeing this, God's infliction on the tohole Russian Land, does not lament? -CHRONICLE4 OFN NOVGOROD TIXTY THOUSAND or more cavalrymen, along with bombardiers to work the mangonels, the giant catapults of siege warfare, started westward from Mongolia in 1236. A few months later this force reached the Volga River near today's Russian city of Kazan. Today a dam at Kazan makes a lake: so wide I can'ts see the oppo- site bank. In fact, for most of its length Mother Volga is a series of stair- step reservoirs- -and a sewer fori industrial and human waste. Bes ...
