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| Date startStart date of the disease. | 1352-08-15 Tuesday | + |
| Date endEnd date of the disease. | 1353-03-24 Saturday | + |
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| PlacePlace(s), city or location of the disease. | Novgorod | |
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| DiseaseMentioned disease(s) | Symptoms | |
| Epidemic waveAssociated epidemic wave | ||
| Social responseSocial response that happened in reaction to the disease | ||
| LanguageLanguage of the original text | Cyrillic | |
| KeywordFurther keyword(s) | Mortality | |
| last edited | 19. 12. 2025 by EpiMedDat-Bot. |
Black Death in Novgorod and other lands[1].
Text originalOriginal text
Того же лѣта [6860] бысть моръ силенъ в Новѣградѣ, прилучися приити на ны, по человѣколюбию божию, праведному суду его; вниде смерть в люди тяжка и напрасна, от госпожина дни почалося нольнѣ и до велика дни, множество бещислено людии добрых помре тогда. Сице же бысть знамение тоя смерти: хракнеть кровью человѣкъ и до треи день бывъ да умрет. Не токмо же въ едином Новѣградѣ бысть сиа смерть, мню, яко по лицю всея земъля походи ; и ему же богъ повелѣ, тъ умре, а его же снабди, сего кажа наказует, да прочее дни о господѣ цѣломудрено и безъгрѣшно поживемъ.
Text translationEnglish translation of the text
The same year [6860] there was a great plague in Novgorod; it came on us by God's loving kindness, and in His righteous judgment, death came upon people, painful and sudden, it began from Lady Day till Easter; a countless number of good people died then. These were the symptoms of that death: a man would spit blood and after three days he was dead. But this death did not visit Novgorod alone; I believe it passed over the face of all the land; and whom ever God commanded, that man died, and whomever he saved, him he admonished and punished, that the rest of our days we may live in the Lord virtuously and sinlessly.
- ↑ In the source, information about the Black Death is placed after the news of the death of Archbishop Moisiej, which occurred on July 3, 1352. It is also noted in the source that the plague raged from the feast of the Theotokos, i.e. they most likely refer to the period from one of the feasts dedicated to the Theotokos in 1352. These may include: Dormition - August 15, Birth - September 8, Pokrov - October 1, Introduction to the temple - November 21. According to the source, the plague ended on Easter (March 24) 1353
