An enormous horde crossed the River Ural and advanced into the heart of the country, pillaging, burning, devastating, and murdering.

Nowhere did they meet with serious resistance.

The Princes made no attempt to combine against the common enemy.

Nearly all the principal towns were laid in ashes, and the inhabitants were killed or carried off as slaves.
Having conquered Russia, they advanced westward, and threw all Europe into alarm.

The panic reached even England, and interrupted, it is said, for a time the herring fishing on the coast.