1/10 in 1505, continued his work on the same lines of absorption and consolidation by unmerciful means. Pskof,--the sister republic to Novgorod the Great,--which had guarded its liberties with the same passionate devotion, was obliged to submit. The bell which had always summoned their _Vetche_, and which symbolized their liberty, was carried away. Their lament is as famous as that for the Moorish city of Alhama, when taken by Ferdinand of Aragon. |