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17/06/1469 Justice or Vengeance in Novgorod?


This will be a multi-part story. I have reached out to many parties involved in this matter. I have given each one the opportunity for their point of view on the matter of four ships that had been sunk in the port of Novgorod.




Scotland after a two-day negotiation with Novgorod, opened fire on the port on the 5th of June, in the year 1469 with the help of Finnish ships. They sank three ships that day, one belonging to English citizen Captain Peter and two ships belonging to Captain MyLady of Novgorod. The Duke of Galloway, Al Lan Douglas, said this was a “retaliation for protecting pirates”.

I will begin my interviews with English citizens involved in this attack, Peter and Shirinova Markov.


Peter, did you have any sign that there would be problems when you docked in Novgorod?

No, not at all. I was just excited to get my new ship, and we just delivered a passenger at Finland with no problems, So no nothing seems to be wrong.

Can you tell me from your point of view what went on that caused a tremendous problem for English citizens there?

What went wrong? On our side, nothing went wrong but when the attackers came to the harbour of Russia, they noticed the pirates they followed already were gone. And they wanted to do something, so they attacked us.

Has England reached out to you on this matter?

No I did not hear anything from England. I did send a politician a message but nothing happened.

Has anyone in Novgorod or other nations reached out to you to help?

Yes the Russians did help us and had given me a new ship because Kat sunk it without a warning and they put a price of 10k on the sinking of those ships.

Who was involved in the attack against you, and do they represent a country or just themselves?

Kat. Lady of Locksley. Was leading the fleet when they attacked. They were following a pirate and when shè escaped Kat needed something else to revenge and I was that one.

Thank you Peter for giving us your point of view. I asked Shirinova Markov, Admiral Markov of Markov Marine, some questions on the matter as well.

Admiral Markov, did you have any sign that there would be problems when you docked in Novgorod?

No none apart from the usual wait to dock.

Can you tell me from your point of view what went on that caused an immense problem for English citizens there?

It was likely due to there being word that Tess Gulliero was present in Russia when we docked, yet I didn’t see her in the town when we got there. Some of our group had seen her at the campfire, though. I had heard that she was being hunted down but didn’t think that would affect our plans.

Has England’s Royal Embassy reached out to you on this matter?

No, I’ve had to mail the Royal and Sussex Embassies in order to get responses. To be fair, Russia is pretty far from England so they wouldn’t have known there was any reason to contact me previous to my mail to them.

Has anyone in Novgorod or other nations reached out to you to help?

Yes, some residents in Novgorod have been kind enough to make philtres and to provide us with food while we’ve been here and while information has been slow it has filtered through to us.

Finland’s Ambassador mailed me to get information on the events and I’m doing a report for him and the Sussex Embassy.

Russia’s Ambassador has been helpful and is keeping me updated with his negotiations with Scotland in the hopes that a resolution will be made.


Who was involved in the attack against you, and do they represent a country or just themselves?

A Scottish lady, Kat. , Lady of Locksley is the principal person in the attacks on ships in the Russian port and their sinking - including a ship one of our group had just paid for. ‘Tis she who mails to taunt us with threats of more sinkings should we sail from the port. Her justification for this is that we helped Tess Gulliero elude capture by way of a Russian army. However, most of us were in the town and therefore couldn’t have done that. One of our members, though, was in the vicinity where the action against Tess Gulliero took place and was unfortunately killed also - along with the Russian Harbour Master, as she tried to reach the town. She arrived but as said, she was dead.

Kat’s next communication was to threaten us with sinking via a Naval blockade at the mouth of Russia, an area of sea west of the Port, a blockade that would last 90 days.

Given what we know, this is Kat working with others to sink pirates and the Count of her County is backing her. However, we are not pirates so why threaten to sink us?

She says she has five warships waiting for us but doesn’t name them or the nationalities.

My opinion is that she failed in her objective and now seeks vengeance with us by delaying our voyage home. Such is intolerable and bordering on harassment.

The choice we have is stark, stay another 90 days in Russia or risk returning home and possibly all three of our ships being sunk.


Thank you Admiral Markov for your side of the story. Up next we have from Novgorod, Wbw, Lady Katarina Sofia, Lady of the White Lakes, side of the story




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