Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky sent by Tsar Vasily Shuisky to Novgorod managed to negotiate with the Swedes for military support against the Polish–Lithuanian magnates and False Dmitry II, concluding a Vyborg Treaty with Jacob De la Gardie.

Under their onslaught, the leader of the Polish Hussars detachment Kernozitsky left Russa without a fight, which allies occupied on May 20.

At the first blow of the armored infantry of Horn, Kernozitsky's army fled, and the noble cavalry of Fyodor Chulkov completed the rout.

[2] With the remnants of the detachment, Kernozitsky tried to sit outside the walls of the nearby Trinity Nebin Monastery, but was attacked and knocked out of it.

Torzhok, Staritsa, Ostashkov, Rzhev, Zubtsov, Kholm, Nevel, and other northwestern Russian cities "set aside" from False Dmitry II.