Ulugh Muhammad ya saki Vasily II bayan an biya wani makudan kudin fansa.Wannan ya haifar da karuwar haraji kuma, saboda haka, a cikin rashin jin daɗi, wanda ya ƙarfafa jam'iyyar Dmitry Shemyaka.A farkon 1446, Shemyaka ya kama Vasily a cikin Triniti Sergius Lavra, ya kawo Moscow, makanta, sa'an nan kuma aika zuwa Uglich.Shemyaka ya fara sarauta a matsayin Yariman Moscow.A cikin kaka na 1446 ya yi tafiya zuwa Uglich don neman zaman lafiya da Vasily.Sun yi yarjejeniya, Vasily ya yi rantsuwa da mubaya'a kuma ya yi alkawarin ba zai sake neman Babban Sarauta ba, kuma a sakamakon haka an sake shi kuma ya sami Vologda a hannunsa.A Vologda Vasily tafiya zuwa Kirillo-Belozersky sufi, da hegumen sake shi daga rantsuwa.Nan da nan Vasily ya fara shirye-shiryen yaƙi da Shemyaka.