Who are the Baskaki? Why were they accompanied by a detachment of armed people?

Residents complained to their prince Alexander Mikhailovich, but he did not accept any attempts to help them. People got tired of enduring and they rebelled. It all started one morning. The Tatars took the horse away from one deacon. The deacon gathered a veche, which called the people of Tver to an uprising. The insurgent townspeople burned the Chol-khen tower and himself alive and killed all the Tatars living in Tver.