The peasants had fled beyond the Yenisei, hoping that this wide river would perhaps stop the Tartars.
There was a deserted village here; years ago the peasants had fled from this disputed border with the false pharaoh.
The next hundred years were difficult for the abbey since many of the farms were destroyed and the peasants killed or fled.
The peasants dropped their hoes and fled in panic.
The local peasants had long since fled Hohenroda.
The peasants in the triangle would not have fled yet, but they would be on edge.
"The peasants are fleeing in panic, of course, and they're clogging every road that leads south."
However, when the 20,000-strong Turkish army of professional akinci cavalry neared, most peasants fled.
The region experienced an influx of settlers in the 13th century, when peasants were fleeing the Mongols.
But in time there came troubles, and the peasants ceased to bless him, and fled away instead as from a doom.