The military campaigns of 1441-60 have increased Moscow's hold over Suzdal, the Vyatka lands and the republican governments of Novgorod and Pskov.

In the later reign of Vasily II, the blind prince has been greatly helped by Metropolitan Jonah, boyars, and finally by his older son Ivan, who has been styled co-ruler since the late 1450s.

On Vasily's death on March 28, 1462, his son succeeds him as Grand Prince Ivan III.

eventually to be known as Ivan the Great, referred to as the "gatherer of the Russian lands", he will ultimately triple the territory of his state, renovate the Moscow Kremlin, and lay the foundations of the Russian state.

He is to become one of the longest-reigning Russian rulers in history.