[Footnote 20: M. Levesque (Hist. de Russie, tom. ii. p. 247.
Vie de Timour, p. 64 - 67, before the French version of the
Institutes) has corrected the error of Sherefeddin, and
marked the true limit of Timour's conquests. His arguments
are superfluous; and a simple appeal to the Russian annals
is sufficient to prove that Moscow, which six years before
had been taken by Toctamish, escaped the arms of a more
formidable invader.]