Kezan

This state of things encouraged the two hordes of Kezan and Tauride to unite, and with an army of a hundred thousand men they penetrated Russia almost unopposed, burning and plundering in all directions.

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On the 13th of August, with his assembled army, he reached Viask on the Volga, about fifty miles above Kezan.

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Russians began to rejoice, imagining that the tzar of Kezan, struck with terror, had fled with all his army into the forest.

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The danger was imminent that the insurrection would prove successful, and that the Russians would be entirely exterminated from Kezan.

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The most western occupied a large territory upon the Volga and the Kama, called Kezan.

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Ivan IV., sending his trophies to Moscow, as an encouragement to the capital, again put his army in motion towards Kezan.

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That very day, the Russian army, amounting to one hundred and fifty thousand men, arrived within sight of Kezan.

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Many of the lords counseled that he should remain at Kezan until spring, that the more distant regions might be overawed by the presence of the army.

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Soon after, a new conquest, more easy, but not less glorious, was added to that of Kezan.

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The Russians had now been a month before the walls of Kezan.

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