[4] Yury went to the Horde after Özbeg summoned him, but Aleksandr attacked him on his way, taking his possessions and forcing him to flee to Pskov.

[6] In 1327, a Tatar official and cousin of Özbeg, the baskak Shevkal, arrived in Tver from the Horde, with a large retinue.

They took up residence at Aleksandr's palace and, according to chronicle reports, started terrorizing the city, randomly robbing and killing.

Rumors spread that Shevkal wanted to kill the prince, occupy the throne for himself and introduce Islam to the city.

[8] Özbeg dispatched a punitive force led by Ivan I of Moscow, the brother of Yury, to sack the city.

[11] For his role in leading the punitive expedition, Özbeg rewarded Ivan with the title of grand prince and shared the principality between him and Aleksandr of Suzdal.

[15] According to John L. I. Fennell, it is "hard to conceive of any possible motive behind the Pskovites' show of bravado except the assurance of Lithuanian support".

[15] Ivan moved his troops to the town of Opochka, situated about 100 miles (160 km) from Pskov, but decided against a direct attack on the city.

[19] Aleksandr made contact with Theognostus and sent his boyars to the metropolitan "for the sake of his blessing and his prayers", as the chronicle says, though it is likely that he sought protection from the Russian Orthodox Church.

[21] However, Fennell says that "the situation closely resembled that of 1326", in which Aleksandr "was permitted to return to Tver' in order that he might discredit himself in the eyes of the Tverites–and indeed of any other Russians who might witness his predicament–and thus ultimately bring about his own destruction".

[28] According to Fennell, "If Uzbek had not succeeded in bringing back Pskov into the orbit of the grand prince of Vladimir, he had at least removed from the political scene the most powerful ally of Gedimin in north-east Russia".