After defeating the troops of Vasily II in the Battle of Belyov, Ulugh Muhammad approached Moscow after a while.

Vasily II left the city in the care of the voivodes, and he himself went to the Trans-Volga forests inaccessible to the Tatars.

[1] After the departure of the Tatars, Vasily II returned from the Volga region, but settled for a while in Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, entrusting the management of Moscow to his cousin Dmitry Yuryevich Krasny.

As the Ermolinsky Chronicle noted, the reason for the reluctance to return to Moscow immediately was the fact that "the villages were burned from the Tatars, and people were whipped, and the stench was great from them."

Historian Nikolai Borisov sees in the mention of this nuance a visual comparison of cruelty and indifference to the tragedy of Vasily II with the nobility and sorrow of Dmitry Donskoy described there, who buried the dead during the invasion of Tokhtamysh.