Shemyaka ya yi mulki ba tare da inganci ba, bai sami damar jawo hankalin abokansa ba, kuma mai martaba ya fara canzawa daga Moscow zuwa Vologda.Vasily kuma ya gudanar da kawance da Kazan Tatars.A karshen 1446, lokacin da Dmitry Shemyaka ya fita a Volokolamsk, sojojin Vasily II shiga Moscow.Vasily ta fara korar Shemyaka.A cikin 1447, sun nemi zaman lafiya, kuma sun yarda su yarda da fifikon Vasily.Duk da haka, Dmitry Shemyaka ya ci gaba da juriya, yana ƙoƙari ya jawo hankalin abokan tarayya da kuma tattara manyan sojojin da za su yi yaƙi da Vasily.A cikin 1448 Vasily ya fara aikin soja, wanda ya haɗa da mafi yawan ƙasashen Arewa har zuwa Veliky Ustyug kuma tare da wasu katsewa ya ci gaba har zuwa 1452, lokacin da Shemyaka ya ci nasara kuma ya gudu zuwa Novgorod.A cikin 1453, an ba shi guba a wurin bin umarnin kai tsaye na Vasily.Daga baya, Vasily ya yi nasarar kawar da dukan sarakunan yankin da suka goyi bayan Shemyaka a baya.Sarakunan Mozhaysk da Serpukhov sun kasance wani ɓangare na Grand Duchy na Moscow.