A.D. 1141. A.M. 6649. On April 1 there was a very marvellous sign in the sky; six circles, three close about the sun, and three other large ones outside the sun, and stood nearly all day.

The same year they came from Vsevolod from Kiev for his brother Svyatoslav to take him to Kiev; 'and receive my son as your [Prince],'he said. And when they sent the Bishop and many best men for his son, they said to Svyatsoslav 'Thou wait for thy brother, then thou shalt go:' but he, fearing the men of Novgorod, 'whether they are going to deceive me,' fled secretly in the night; Yakun fled with him. And they took Yakun on the [river] Plisa, and having brought him hither with his brother Procupi, they nearly did him to death, having stripped him naked, as his mother bore him, and they threw the bridge; but God saved him, he waded to the bank, and they beat him no more, but took from him 1,000 [half pounds of silver] and from his brother 100 [half pounds of silver], likewise they took from others; And they exiled Yakun with his brother to the Chud people, having chained their hands to their wives from Novgorod, and kept them by him in favour. And Vsevolod was wroth, and he detained all the emissaries and the Bishop and the Merchants.

And the people of Novgorod went without a [Prince] nine months; and they summoned Sudila, Nezhata and Strashko from Suzhdal, who had fled from Novgorod on account of Svyatoslav and Yakun; and they gave the [Mayor]-ship of Novgorod to Sudila; and they sent to Suzhdal for Gyurgi to be [Prince] and he did not go, but sent his son, Rostislav, who had been before.

The same year Rostislav went on the throne at Novgorod, on November 26.