Despite two failed campaigns by Mikhail to subdue Yury, the latter allied with the Golden Horde and married the khan's sister Konchaka.

Yury faced resistance and difficulties in collecting tribute for the Horde, prompting several punitive expeditions.

[4] This is why the Golden Horde's khan, Tokhta, granted Mikhail of Tver the grand princely title when Andrey of Gorodets died the next year on 27 July 1304.

By 1314, Yury secured backing from the Metropolitan Peter and formed a military alliance with Novgorod against Tver.

[citation needed] In 1315, Yury went to the Golden Horde and, after spending two years there, constructed an alliance with Uzbeg Khan.

[8] Yury, who both depended on and benefited from Uzbeg Khan's favour, was allowed to be the grand prince of Vladimir for the next four years (1318–1322).

In 1322,[8] Dmitry, seeking revenge for his father's murder,[citation needed] went to Sarai[8] and persuaded the khan that Yury had appropriated a large portion of the tribute due to the Horde.

[9] In early 1326, Yury's remains were returned to Moscow and buried by the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Peter.

[10] Shortly before his death, Yury led the army of Novgorod to fight the Swedes and founded a fort in the mouth of the Neva River.