Council of Dolobsk

The Council of Dolobsk is one of the significant stages in the attempts of the princes of Kievan Rus' to stop their internal quarrels, and unite their efforts in the face of the Cuman (Polovtsi) threat.

The Hypatian Codex continuation of the PVL reports a very similar Council of Dolobsk between the same people, with only slight differences in wording, but taking place in the year 1111 (6619) instead; this might be an accidental duplication of the earlier narrative sub anno 1103 (6611).

Beldyuz' offers a large sum of goods to pay for his release, but Monomakh accuses him of "[violating your] oaths by the shedding of Christian blood", and orders him to be executed.

For others rode above you with shining and terrible weapons, aiding you", in reference to the narrator's earlier claims that angels of God provided assistance to the Christian Rus' forces against the pagan Polovtsi.

[12] The narrator then goes off on a long tangent about angels in Christian scriptures, and how this 1111 campaign confirms that the pious Rus' princes are also blessed in their struggle against the unbelievers, leaving the fate of the Polovtsi prisoners of war unspecified.