1446

Shemyaka had Vasili II blinded and exiled to Uglich, and had himself declared the Grand Prince.

• Tsar (Khan) Mahmed let the Veliki Knyaz Vasih return to the Russian Land, taking a ransom of two hundred thousand roubles; and what else, God knows, and they.

• That same year the people began to find fault with the silver coinage, till all the men of Novgorod looked one at the other; there was tumult and rebellion and animosity amongst them. And the Posadnik and the Tysyatski and all Novgorod appointed five minters, and they began to re-mould the old coins and to mint new coins of the same value: of the same weight of four pochki, and half a denga was taken off the new grivna. There was much distress and loss among the Christians in the town and in the districts. And this will not be forgotten even in the last generations.

• The same year three Knyazes: Dmitri Yurievich, Ivan Andreyevich of Mozhaisk and Boris Alexandrovich of Tver, with two of the Tsar's envoys, conspired together; they ordered the levy of a contribution and took the money. The same year those same three Knyazes caught the Veliki Knyaz Vasih Vasihevich in the Trinity monastery, behind the Sergiev tomb, and blinded him; and Dmitri Yurievich became Veliki Knyaz of Novgorod

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