To conciliate the invader they sent him large presents of food and wine.

Oleg, apprehensive that the viands were poisoned, refused to accept them.

He however demanded enormous tribute of the emperor, to which terms the Greeks consented, on condition that Oleg would cease hostilities, and return peaceably to his country.

Upon this basis of a treaty, the Russian array retired to some distance from the city, and Oleg sent four commissioners to arrange with the emperor the details of peace.
The humiliating treaty exacted was as follows: =I.= The Greeks engage to give twelve _grivnas_ to each man of the Russian army, and the same sum to each of the warriors in the cities governed by the dependent princes of Oleg.
=II.= The embassadors, sent by Russia to Constantinople, shall have all their expenses defrayed by the emperor.

And, moreover, the emperor engages to give to every Russian merchant in Greece, bread, wine, meat, fish and fruits, for the space of six months; to grant him free access to the public baths, and to furnish him, on his return to his country, with food, anchors, sails, and, in a word, with every thing he needs.
On the other hand the Greeks propose that the Russians, who visit Constantinople for any other purposes than those of commerce, shall not be entitled to this supply of their tables.